Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 10/12] vhost-user: add vhost_user_gpu_set_socket()

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 06:27:47PM +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Add a new vhost-user message to give a unix socket for gpu updates to
> a vhost-user backend.
> 
> Back when I started that work, I added a new GPU channel because the
> vhost-user protocol wasn't bidirectional. Since then, there is a
> vhost-user-slave channel for the slave to send requests to the master.
> We could extend it with GPU messages. However, the GPU protocol is
> quite orthogonal to vhost-user 

Yes.

> and may not need the same kind of
> stability guarantees,

Why?

> thus I recommend to have a new dedicated
> channel.
> 
> FIXME: document the GPU protocol.

Yes, please.

cheers,
  Gerd