[Rust-VMM] [RFC, WIP] rust implementation of ghost-user protocol

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi

On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 6:31 AM Liu Jiang <liuj97 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> As we have discussed, community members have showed interests in rust implementation of the ghost-user protocol. It happens that we are working on implementing ghost-user protocol, but still in very early stage.
> I think it would be better to share our work with community as early as possible so we could cooperate on the design and implementation.
> The overall idea is to implement a rust crate for vhost-user protocol, and then extends the vhost driver in crosvm/firecracker to add a thin wrapper support both vhost (kernel) and vhost-user backends. The crate is in very early stage which only implements the skeleton and basic commands, so a long todo list:
> 1) support dirty page log
> 2) support live migration
> 3) support IOMMU/IOTLB
> 4) better documentation
> 5) more unit test cases
>
> I have hosted the crate at my personal GitHub repository at https://github.com/jiangliu/vhostuser_rs and hope it could be hosted by the rust-vmm project eventually.
> Any comments, suggestions and PRs are welcomed!

I had a quick look. Nice work Liu, it looks like a very good start! I
hope I can start using & contributing to it soon.

Is there any user of the crate? In particular, do you have code to
manipulate the virtio rings?

thanks!



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Marc-André Lureau