On 05/27/2014 06:06 AM, Nikolay Nikolaev wrote: > This document describes the basic message format used by vhost-user > for communication over a unix domain socket. The protocol is based > on the existing ioctl interface used for the kernel version of vhost. > > Signed-off-by: Antonios Motakis <a.mota...@virtualopensystems.com> > Signed-off-by: Nikolay Nikolaev <n.nikol...@virtualopensystems.com> > --- > docs/specs/vhost-user.txt | 261 > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 261 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 docs/specs/vhost-user.txt > > diff --git a/docs/specs/vhost-user.txt b/docs/specs/vhost-user.txt > new file mode 100644 > index 0000000..e7f43f5 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/docs/specs/vhost-user.txt > @@ -0,0 +1,261 @@ > +Vhost-user Protocol
Pre-existing problem throughout this directory, but it might be nice to assert copyright and assign a license to this file. > + > +The protocol defines 2 sides of the communication, master and slave. Master > is > +the application that shares it's virtqueues, in our case QEMU. Slave is the s/it's/its/ (remember, "it's" only works if "it is" could be used in the same context) > +consumer of the virtqueues. > + > +In the current implementation QEMU is the Master, and the Slave is intended > to > +be a software ethernet switch running in user space, such as Snabbswitch. s/ethernet/Ethernet/ > +Communication > +------------- > + > +The protocol for vhost-user is based on the existing implementation of vhost > +for the Linux Kernel. Most messages that can be send via the Unix domain > socket s/send/sent/ -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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