Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 4/7] Add domain socket communication for vhost-user backend

2013-12-23 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 03:10:37PM +0100, Mian M. Hamayun wrote: > From: Antonios Motakis > > Add structures for passing vhost-user messages over a unix domain socket. > This is the equivalent to the existing vhost-kernel ioctls. > > Connect to the named unix domain socket. The system call sendm

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 4/7] Add domain socket communication for vhost-user backend

2013-12-20 Thread Mian M. Hamayun
From: Antonios Motakis Add structures for passing vhost-user messages over a unix domain socket. This is the equivalent to the existing vhost-kernel ioctls. Connect to the named unix domain socket. The system call sendmsg is used for communication. To be able to pass file descriptors between pro