Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC v1 0/2] Add device emulation support in DPDK

2020-09-02 Thread Xia, Chenbo
Hi Thomas, > -Original Message- > From: Thomas Monjalon > Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2020 5:11 AM > To: Xia, Chenbo > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Ding, Xuan ; Lu, Xiuchun > ; Liang, Cunming ; Liu, > Changpeng ; Wang, Zhihong > ; Stephen Hemminger ; > Richardson, Bruce ; Burakov, Anatoly > ; davi

Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC v1 0/2] Add device emulation support in DPDK

2020-09-02 Thread Thomas Monjalon
14/08/2020 21:16, Chenbo Xia: > Background & Motivation > --- > In order to reduce the attack surface, QEMU community is disaggregating QEMU > by > removing part of device emulation from it. The disaggregated/multi-process > QEMU > is using VFIO-over-socket/vfio-user as the ma

Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC v1 0/2] Add device emulation support in DPDK

2020-08-16 Thread Xia, Chenbo
Hi Stephen, > -Original Message- > From: Stephen Hemminger > Sent: Friday, August 14, 2020 11:00 PM > To: Xia, Chenbo > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; tho...@monjalon.net; Ding, Xuan ; > Lu, Xiuchun ; Liang, Cunming > ; Liu, Changpeng ; Wang, > Zhihong > Subject: Re:

Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC v1 0/2] Add device emulation support in DPDK

2020-08-14 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 19:16:04 + Chenbo Xia wrote: > This series enables DPDK to be an alternative I/O device emulation library of > building virtualized devices in separate processes outside QEMU. It introduces > a new library (librte_vfio_user), a new device class (emudev) and one pilot > dev

[dpdk-dev] [RFC v1 0/2] Add device emulation support in DPDK

2020-08-14 Thread Chenbo Xia
This series enables DPDK to be an alternative I/O device emulation library of building virtualized devices in separate processes outside QEMU. It introduces a new library (librte_vfio_user), a new device class (emudev) and one pilot device provider (avf_emudev) with its backend of Ethdev PMD (avfbe