From afaria at redhat.com  Mon Nov  7 07:43:00 2022
From: afaria at redhat.com (Alberto Faria)
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2022 07:43:00 +0000
Subject: [Rust-VMM] pci-driver Rust crate now available
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Hi Luka,

Apologies for the delay.

On Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 4:45 PM Luka Perkov <luka.perkov at sartura.hr> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 12:15 PM Alberto Faria <afaria at redhat.com> wrote:
> > In principle, any PCI(e) device can be controlled using pci-driver. A
> > standard use case would be to build a user-space NVMe driver to get
> > every last bit of performance out of a storage device (think SPDK).
>
> That sounds interesting. Is there a project leveraging this library in
> such a way?

Not yet for NVMe, but we have used it to implement a user-space driver
for virtio-blk PCI devices, which is integrated in libblkio [1].

> > By switching silicon, do you mean actual PCIe switches? If so, no:
> > pci-driver expects functions with a type 0 config space header.
>
> Nope, I mean the network switches, such as the ones here where the
> Linux CPU is connected via PCIe:
>
> https://lwn.net/Articles/829522/
> https://dent.dev/

Then yes, pci-driver could be used to build user-level drivers for
SmartNICs and switching offload PCI devices.

Thanks,
Alberto

[1] https://gitlab.com/libblkio/libblkio



From stefanha at gmail.com  Tue Nov  8 15:45:33 2022
From: stefanha at gmail.com (Stefan Hajnoczi)
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2022 10:45:33 -0500
Subject: [Rust-VMM] Call for FOSDEM presentations on QEMU, KVM, and rust-vmm
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Hi,
The yearly FOSDEM open source conference is now accepting talk
proposals. FOSDEM '23 will be held in Brussels, Belgium on 4 & 5
February.

FOSDEM is a huge free conference about all things open source and an
opportunity for anyone to present QEMU or KVM topics. Both in-person
and pre-recorded talks are being accepted this year.

Please consider submitting your talks to the following devrooms:

Emulator Development Room:
https://blackbeard334.github.io/fosdem23-emulator-devroom-cfp/

Virtualization and IaaS devroom:
https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/track/virtualization_and_iaas/

Rust devroom:
https://rust-fosdem.github.io/

Thanks,
Stefan