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vhost-user: allow slave to send fds via slave channel

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Introduce VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_SLAVE_SEND_FD protocol
feature to allow slave to send at most 8 descriptors
in each message to master via ancillary data using the
slave channel.

Suggested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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Tiwei Bie 2018-05-24 18:33:32 +08:00 • committed by Michael S. Tsirkin
parent 988a27754b
commit 5f57fbeaaf
2 changed files with 22 additions and 10 deletions
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docs/interop/vhost-user.txt
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@ -367,6 +367,10 @@ The fd is provided via VHOST_USER_SET_SLAVE_REQ_FD ancillary data.
A slave may then send VHOST_USER_SLAVE_* messages to the master
using this fd communication channel.
If VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_SLAVE_SEND_FD protocol feature is negotiated,
slave can send file descriptors (at most 8 descriptors in each message)
to master via ancillary data using this fd communication channel.
Protocol features
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@ -380,6 +384,7 @@ Protocol features
#define VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_CRYPTO_SESSION 7
#define VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_PAGEFAULT 8
#define VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_CONFIG 9
#define VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_SLAVE_SEND_FD 10
Master message types
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