From patchwork Thu Feb 4 09:58:15 2021 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Stefan Hajnoczi X-Patchwork-Id: 1435907 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Authentication-Results: ozlabs.org; spf=pass (sender SPF authorized) smtp.mailfrom=nongnu.org (client-ip=209.51.188.17; helo=lists.gnu.org; envelope-from=qemu-devel-bounces+incoming=patchwork.ozlabs.org@nongnu.org; receiver=) Authentication-Results: ozlabs.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (1024-bit key; unprotected) header.d=redhat.com header.i=@redhat.com header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=mimecast20190719 header.b=LHX6Y9f9; dkim-atps=neutral Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [209.51.188.17]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4DWZ5b3btYz9sXN for ; Thu, 4 Feb 2021 21:09:07 +1100 (AEDT) Received: from localhost ([::1]:38780 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7bZR-0006Gy-CN for incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2021 05:09:05 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51710) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7bQl-0003qK-Vz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2021 05:00:08 -0500 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com ([216.205.24.124]:34480) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l7bQk-0000jY-32 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2021 05:00:07 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1612432805; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=GHKJTicdlgWERM9Xb3dwFDowFagvk9YRB/zd49r5woE=; b=LHX6Y9f9DDMvOtOWiywCKheVKKy5xD2PW98ctc2MnocPcah/P5D2COJfD0rbuRmQAOw2ht J30NjAu6YRNAeF0Tdf/xO4+Pu3nWN3dV/4nOF+Ia0WybuqO1hhqdPIoi9SrNNY13JC8dW1 MnnrAlVIqOWyD1uvfyL0LnawLWCWEqc= Received: from mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (mimecast-mx01.redhat.com [209.132.183.4]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id us-mta-389-F3-6Ct-xO0Gm9y_6B6ooNw-1; Thu, 04 Feb 2021 05:00:03 -0500 X-MC-Unique: F3-6Ct-xO0Gm9y_6B6ooNw-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BDF2E804023; Thu, 4 Feb 2021 10:00:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (ovpn-115-89.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.115.89]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 686791F47D; Thu, 4 Feb 2021 09:59:52 +0000 (UTC) From: Stefan Hajnoczi To: Peter Maydell , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Subject: [PULL 08/27] multi-process: add configure and usage information Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2021 09:58:15 +0000 Message-Id: <20210204095834.345749-9-stefanha@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20210204095834.345749-1-stefanha@redhat.com> References: <20210204095834.345749-1-stefanha@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.84 on 10.5.11.23 Authentication-Results: relay.mimecast.com; auth=pass smtp.auth=CUSA124A263 smtp.mailfrom=stefanha@redhat.com X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Received-SPF: pass client-ip=216.205.24.124; envelope-from=stefanha@redhat.com; helo=us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH=-0.539, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, MIME_BASE64_TEXT=1.741, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Elena Ufimtseva , Fam Zheng , Thomas Huth , =?utf-8?q?Daniel_P=2E_Berrang=C3=A9?= , Eduardo Habkost , qemu-block@nongnu.org, John G Johnson , "Denis V. Lunev" , =?utf-8?q?Philippe_Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9?= , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Wainer dos Santos Moschetta , Stefan Hajnoczi , Paolo Bonzini , Igor Mammedov , Jagannathan Raman , =?utf-8?q?Alex_Benn=C3=A9e?= Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+incoming=patchwork.ozlabs.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" From: Elena Ufimtseva Adds documentation explaining the command-line arguments needed to use multi-process. Signed-off-by: Elena Ufimtseva Signed-off-by: Jagannathan Raman Signed-off-by: John G Johnson Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi Message-id: 49f757a84e5dd6fae14b22544897d1124c5fdbad.1611938319.git.jag.raman@oracle.com [Move orphan docs/multi-process.rst document into docs/system/ and add it to index.rst to prevent Sphinx "document isn't included in any toctree" error. --Stefan] Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi --- MAINTAINERS | 1 + docs/system/index.rst | 1 + docs/system/multi-process.rst | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 66 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/system/multi-process.rst diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 2ff1ead4ab..9d2fe7f8db 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -3200,6 +3200,7 @@ M: Jagannathan Raman M: John G Johnson S: Maintained F: docs/devel/multi-process.rst +F: docs/system/multi-process.rst Build and test automation ------------------------- diff --git a/docs/system/index.rst b/docs/system/index.rst index d40f72c92b..625b494372 100644 --- a/docs/system/index.rst +++ b/docs/system/index.rst @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ Contents: pr-manager targets security + multi-process deprecated removed-features build-platforms diff --git a/docs/system/multi-process.rst b/docs/system/multi-process.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..46bb0cafc2 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/system/multi-process.rst @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +Multi-process QEMU +================== + +This document describes how to configure and use multi-process qemu. +For the design document refer to docs/devel/qemu-multiprocess. + +1) Configuration +---------------- + +multi-process is enabled by default for targets that enable KVM + + +2) Usage +-------- + +Multi-process QEMU requires an orchestrator to launch. + +Following is a description of command-line used to launch mpqemu. + +* Orchestrator: + + - The Orchestrator creates a unix socketpair + + - It launches the remote process and passes one of the + sockets to it via command-line. + + - It then launches QEMU and specifies the other socket as an option + to the Proxy device object + +* Remote Process: + + - QEMU can enter remote process mode by using the "remote" machine + option. + + - The orchestrator creates a "remote-object" with details about + the device and the file descriptor for the device + + - The remaining options are no different from how one launches QEMU with + devices. + + - Example command-line for the remote process is as follows: + + /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 \ + -machine x-remote \ + -device lsi53c895a,id=lsi0 \ + -drive id=drive_image2,file=/build/ol7-nvme-test-1.qcow2 \ + -device scsi-hd,id=drive2,drive=drive_image2,bus=lsi0.0,scsi-id=0 \ + -object x-remote-object,id=robj1,devid=lsi1,fd=4, + +* QEMU: + + - Since parts of the RAM are shared between QEMU & remote process, a + memory-backend-memfd is required to facilitate this, as follows: + + -object memory-backend-memfd,id=mem,size=2G + + - A "x-pci-proxy-dev" device is created for each of the PCI devices emulated + in the remote process. A "socket" sub-option specifies the other end of + unix channel created by orchestrator. The "id" sub-option must be specified + and should be the same as the "id" specified for the remote PCI device + + - Example commandline for QEMU is as follows: + + -device x-pci-proxy-dev,id=lsi0,socket=3