Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/2] ivshmem: update documentation, add client/server tools

[Gonglei (Arei)]

Hi,

> Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/2] ivshmem: update documentation, add
> client/server tools
> 
> Here is a patchset containing an update on ivshmem specs documentation and
> importing ivshmem server and client tools.
> These tools have been written from scratch and are not related to what is
> available in nahanni repository.
> I put them in contrib/ directory as the qemu-doc.texi was already telling the
> server was supposed to be there.
> 
> Changes since v2:
> - fixed license issues in ivshmem client/server (I took hw/virtio/virtio-rng.c
>   file as a reference).
> 
> Changes since v1:
> - moved client/server import patch before doc update,
> - tried to re-organise the ivshmem_device_spec.txt file based on Claudio
>   comments (still not sure if the result is that great, comments welcome),
> - incorporated comments from Claudio, Eric and Cam,
> - added more details on the server <-> client messages exchange (but sorry, no
>   ASCII art here).
> 
> By the way, there are still some functionnalities that need description (use 
> of
> ioeventfd, the lack of irqfd support) and some parts of the ivshmem code 
> clearly
> need cleanup. I will try to address this in future patches when these first
> patches are ok.
> 
> 
If you can describe the steps of using example about
your ivshmem-client and ivshmem-server will be great IMHO.

Best regards,
-Gonglei

> --
> David Marchand
> 
> David Marchand (2):
>   contrib: add ivshmem client and server
>   docs: update ivshmem device spec
> 
>  contrib/ivshmem-client/Makefile         |   29 +++
>  contrib/ivshmem-client/ivshmem-client.c |  418
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  contrib/ivshmem-client/ivshmem-client.h |  238 ++++++++++++++++++
>  contrib/ivshmem-client/main.c           |  246 ++++++++++++++++++
>  contrib/ivshmem-server/Makefile         |   29 +++
>  contrib/ivshmem-server/ivshmem-server.c |  420
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  contrib/ivshmem-server/ivshmem-server.h |  185 ++++++++++++++
>  contrib/ivshmem-server/main.c           |  296
> ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  docs/specs/ivshmem_device_spec.txt      |  124 ++++++---
>  qemu-doc.texi                           |   10 +-
>  10 files changed, 1961 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 contrib/ivshmem-client/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 contrib/ivshmem-client/ivshmem-client.c
>  create mode 100644 contrib/ivshmem-client/ivshmem-client.h
>  create mode 100644 contrib/ivshmem-client/main.c
>  create mode 100644 contrib/ivshmem-server/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 contrib/ivshmem-server/ivshmem-server.c
>  create mode 100644 contrib/ivshmem-server/ivshmem-server.h
>  create mode 100644 contrib/ivshmem-server/main.c
> 
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