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Feedback on multi-process QEMU muser prototype
From: |
Stefan Hajnoczi |
Subject: |
Feedback on multi-process QEMU muser prototype |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:22:30 +0000 |
I haven't seen the link to the muser prototype shared on the list yet,
so I'm taking the liberty of posting it for discussion:
https://github.com/oracle/qemu/tree/multi-process-qemu-v0.4.1-muser
Great that a lot of the multi-process patch series is no longer
necessary. The muser approach requires less code in QEMU.
The following points came to mind:
1. Configure PCI configuration space, BARs, and MSI/IRQs based on the PCIDevice
instead of hard-coding the LSI SCSI controller's specifics. That way any
PCIDevice can run as an muser device.
2. Integrate with QEMU's event loop instead of spawning threads and calling
lm_ctx_run(). The event loop should monitor the muser fd for activity using
aio_set_fd_handler() and then call into libmuser to handle the event. This
will avoid thread model problems in the future and also allow true
multi-threading (IOThreads).
3. Drop previous multi-process QEMU commits if they are not needed.
Stefan
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