Re: [PATCH 3/3] configure: mark vhost-user Linux-only

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 11/10/20 6:11 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> The vhost-user protocol uses the Linux eventfd feature and is typically
> connected to Linux kvm.ko ioeventfd and irqfd file descriptors. The
> protocol specification in docs/interop/vhost-user.rst does not describe
> how platforms without eventfd support work.
> 
> The QEMU vhost-user devices compile on other POSIX host operating
> systems because eventfd usage is abstracted in QEMU. The libvhost-user
> programs in contrib/ do not compile but we failed to notice since they
> are not built by default.
> 
> Make it clear that vhost-user is only supported on Linux for the time
> being. If someone wishes to support it on other platforms then the
> details can be added to vhost-user.rst and CI jobs can test the feature
> to prevent bitrot.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> ---
>  configure | 9 ++++-----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>