"Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 10:14:39AM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote: >> Do you think rust-vmm's vhost crates have enough of the state >> management to manage vhost and vhost-user backends? Maybe it would be a >> good experiment in replacing a (small well defined) piece of >> functionality with rust? >> >> That said there is a lot of deep magic in the vhost-net stuff which I >> think is down to the interaction with things like vdpk and other network >> optimisations that might be missing. For the rest of the devices most of >> the code is basically boiler plate which has grown variations due to >> code motion and change. This is the sort of thing that generics solves >> well. > > Not sure what you want to replace with what though, libvhost-user or > vhost-user bits in qemu? The vhost-user bits in the main QEMU binary. We already don't use libvhost-user for most of our backends anyway ;-) -- Alex Bennée
