[virtio-dev] Re: guest / host buffer sharing ...

2019-12-10 Thread David Stevens
There are three issues being discussed here that aren't being clearly delineated: sharing guest allocated memory with the host, sharing host allocated memory with the guest, and sharing buffers between devices. Right now, guest allocated memory can be shared with the host through the virtqueues

Re: [virtio-dev] [RFC RESEND] virtio-video: Add virtio video device specification

2019-12-10 Thread Dmitry Sepp
Hi, Just to start, let's consider this v4l2 control: V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_FRAME_RC_ENABLE. As I can see, this control is referenced as a mandatory one in the Chromium sources [1]. So could someone from the Chromium team please explain why it is mandatory? (YouTube?) In fact, almost no encoders

Re: [virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH] virtio-gpu: add shared resource feature

2019-12-10 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, > > They are never taken away from guest ram. The guest is free to do > > whatever it wants with the pages. It's the job of the guest driver to > > make sure the pages are not released until the host stopped using them. > > So the host must drop all references before completing the > >