crosvm/third_party/vmm_vhost
Keiichi Watanabe 6238a54f4a vmm_vhost: Flatten vhost_user module
Since vhost_user is the only module in vmm_vhost now, remove this module
and have everything in the top-level module.

BUG=b:206900656
TEST=cargo check

Change-Id: I6663a93654e5d692efc7d9904fff0d207144c352
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromiumos/platform/crosvm/+/3295219
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Commit-Queue: Keiichi Watanabe <keiichiw@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Chirantan Ekbote <chirantan@chromium.org>
2021-12-01 09:45:46 +00:00
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.buildkite third_party/vmm_vhost: Add vmm_vhost code into /third_party/ 2021-11-10 08:42:11 +00:00
.cargo third_party/vmm_vhost: Add vmm_vhost code into /third_party/ 2021-11-10 08:42:11 +00:00
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docs vmm_vhost: Delete vhost-kern and vhost-vsock 2021-12-01 09:45:44 +00:00
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README.md vmm_vhost: Delete vhost-kern and vhost-vsock 2021-12-01 09:45:44 +00:00

vHost

A pure rust library for vhost-user. This is a fork of rust-vmm/vhost.

vhost Architecture

The vhost-user protocol aims to implement vhost backend drivers in userspace, which complements the ioctl interface used to control the vhost implementation in the Linux kernel. It implements the control plane needed to establish virtqueue sharing with a user space process on the same host. It uses communication over a Unix domain socket to share file descriptors in the ancillary data of the message.

The protocol defines two sides of the communication, master and slave. Master is the application that shares its virtqueues, slave is the consumer of the virtqueues. Master and slave can be either a client (i.e. connecting) or server (listening) in the socket communication.