crosvm/third_party/vmm_vhost
Anton Romanov bed40ad547 crosvm: migrate to Rust 2021 edition
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Change-Id: I0059c970879b78bfd40b6ce58b10debcf154b50f
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromiumos/platform/crosvm/+/3508322
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Verkamp <dverkamp@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Anton Romanov <romanton@google.com>
2022-03-09 01:16:03 +00:00
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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.