Re: [PATCH v5 00/50] Initial support for multi-process qemu

[Alex Bennée]

Jagannathan Raman <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello
>   
> Started with the presentation in October 2017 made by Marc-Andre (Red Hat)
> and Konrad Wilk (Oracle) [1], and continued by Jag's BoF at KVM Forum 2018,
> the multi-process project is now available and presented in this patchset.
> This first series enables the emulation of lsi53c895a in a separate process.
>
> We posted the Proof Of Concept patches [2] before the BoF session in 2018.
> Subsequently, we posted RFC v1 [3], RFC v2 [4], RFC v3 [5] and RFC v4 [6].
>
> John & Elena presented the status of this project in KVM Forum 2019. We
> appreciate the in-person and email feedback we received to improve this
> patchset. We also received valuable feedback and direction on future
> improvements from the bi-weekly KVM community conference. We have
> incorporated all the feedback in the current version of the series, v5.
>
> Following people contributed to this patchset:
>
> John G Johnson <address@hidden>
> Jagannathan Raman <address@hidden>
> Elena Ufimtseva <address@hidden>
> Kanth Ghatraju <address@hidden>
> Konrad Wilk <address@hidden>
>
> For full concept writeup about QEMU disaggregation, refer to
> docs/devel/qemu-multiprocess.rst. Please refer to
> docs/qemu-multiprocess.txt for usage information.
>
> We are planning on making the following improvements in the future to the 
> experimental
> Qemu multi-process:
>  - Asynchronous communication channel;
>  - Performance improvements;
>  - Libvirt support;
>  - Enforcement of security policies and privileges control;
>
> We welcome all your ideas, concerns, and questions for this patchset.

There seem to be quite a few CI failures with this series applied:

  https://travis-ci.org/stsquad/qemu/builds/656432858
  https://app.shippable.com/github/stsquad/qemu/runs/1275/summary/console
  https://gitlab.com/stsquad/qemu/pipelines/122030403
  https://cirrus-ci.com/build/4577637150490624

-- 
Alex Bennée