On 21/09/2015 12:47, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> > Apart from the windows idea, how does virtio-peer compare to virtio-rpmsg?
> rpmsg is a very specialized thing. It targets single AMP cores, assuming
> that those have full access to the main memory.
Yes, this is why I did say "apart from the windows idea".
> And it is also a
> centralized approach where all message go through the main Linux
> instance. I suspect we could cover that use case as well with generic
> inter-vm shared memory device, but I didn't think about all details yet.
The virtqueue handling seems very similar between the two. However, the
messages for rpmsg however have a small header (struct rpmsg_hdr in
include/linux/rpmsg.h) and there is a weird feature bit VIRTIO_RPMSG_F_NS.
So I guess virtio-rpmsg and virtio-peer are about as similar as
virtio-serial and virtio-peer.
Paolo
