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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] vhost: introduce mdev based hardware backend
To:     Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com>, mst@redhat.com,
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From:   Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
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Date:   Thu, 7 Nov 2019 18:16:46 +0800
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On 2019/11/7 =E4=B8=8B=E5=8D=883:35, Tiwei Bie wrote:
> This patch introduces a mdev based hardware vhost backend.
> This backend is built on top of the same abstraction used
> in virtio-mdev and provides a generic vhost interface for
> userspace to accelerate the virtio devices in guest.
>
> This backend is implemented as a mdev device driver on top
> of the same mdev device ops used in virtio-mdev but using
> a different mdev class id, and it will register the device
> as a VFIO device for userspace to use. Userspace can setup
> the IOMMU with the existing VFIO container/group APIs and
> then get the device fd with the device name. After getting
> the device fd, userspace can use vhost ioctls on top of it
> to setup the backend.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie<tiwei.bie@intel.com>
> ---
> This patch depends on below series:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/11/6/538


Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>

Thanks!