Re: [Qemu-devel] chardev: vhost-user: reconnect issue when QEMU as server

2016-03-09 Thread Yuanhan Liu
On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 04:04:45PM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > Hi > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Yuanhan Liu > wrote: > > I could spend more time to dig it. But before that, I want to know > > how you guys think about it? Does that proposal makes sense to you? > > Or, any better idea

Re: [Qemu-devel] chardev: vhost-user: reconnect issue when QEMU as server

2016-03-09 Thread Marc-André Lureau
Hi On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Yuanhan Liu wrote: > I could spend more time to dig it. But before that, I want to know > how you guys think about it? Does that proposal makes sense to you? > Or, any better ideas? See also this thread, which I have recently rebased: https://lists.nongnu.org/

[Qemu-devel] chardev: vhost-user: reconnect issue when QEMU as server

2016-03-09 Thread Yuanhan Liu
Hi, Currently, the typical usage of vhost-user is QEMU as the client, while the backend (say DPDK vhost-user) be the server. There is a major drawback: the restart of the backend (say, upgrade) needs restart the QEMU. The obvious solution would be let QEMU be the server and the backend be the cli