[virtio-dev][RFC PATCH v2 0/2] Cross-device resource sharing

This RFC comes from the recent discussion on buffer sharing [1], specifically about the need to share resources between different virtio devices. For a concrete use case, this can be used to share virtio-gpu allocated buffers with the recently proposed virtio video device [2], without the need to

[virtio-dev][RFC PATCH v1 2/2] virtio-gpu: add the ability to export resources

Signed-off-by: David Stevens --- virtio-gpu.tex | 30 ++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) diff --git a/virtio-gpu.tex b/virtio-gpu.tex index af4ca61..a1f0210 100644 --- a/virtio-gpu.tex +++ b/virtio-gpu.tex @@ -186,12 +186,16 @@ \subsubsection{Device Operation:

[virtio-dev][RFC PATCH v1 1/2] content: define what an exported object is

Define a mechanism for sharing objects between different virtio devices. Signed-off-by: David Stevens --- content.tex | 18 ++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/content.tex b/content.tex index b1ea9b9..6c6dd59 100644 --- a/content.tex +++ b/content.tex @@ -373,6

Re: [virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH v2 0/1] VirtIO video device specification

Hi, On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 3:44 PM Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > > > > Can't this problem be solved by adding "offset" field in > > > > virtio_video_mem_entry? > > > > > > > > struct virtio_video_mem_entry { > > > > le64 addr; > > > > le32 length; > > > > le32 offset; > > > > u8 padding[4];