[PATCH v1 0/5] virtio: Add the virtio-msg transport

Edgar E. Iglesias posted 5 patches 2 weeks, 3 days ago
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Maintainers: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
.../devices/virtio/virtio-msg-amp-pci.rst     |  70 ++
hw/misc/Kconfig                               |   7 +
hw/misc/meson.build                           |   1 +
hw/misc/virtio-msg-amp-pci.c                  | 328 +++++++
hw/virtio/Kconfig                             |   4 +
hw/virtio/meson.build                         |   5 +
hw/virtio/virtio-msg-bus.c                    |  89 ++
hw/virtio/virtio-msg.c                        | 695 ++++++++++++++
hw/virtio/virtio.c                            |  23 +
include/hw/virtio/spsc_queue.h                | 213 +++++
include/hw/virtio/virtio-bus.h                |   1 +
include/hw/virtio/virtio-msg-bus.h            |  95 ++
include/hw/virtio/virtio-msg-prot.h           | 846 ++++++++++++++++++
include/hw/virtio/virtio-msg.h                |  56 ++
include/hw/virtio/virtio.h                    |   2 +
15 files changed, 2435 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 docs/system/devices/virtio/virtio-msg-amp-pci.rst
create mode 100644 hw/misc/virtio-msg-amp-pci.c
create mode 100644 hw/virtio/virtio-msg-bus.c
create mode 100644 hw/virtio/virtio-msg.c
create mode 100644 include/hw/virtio/spsc_queue.h
create mode 100644 include/hw/virtio/virtio-msg-bus.h
create mode 100644 include/hw/virtio/virtio-msg-prot.h
create mode 100644 include/hw/virtio/virtio-msg.h
[PATCH v1 0/5] virtio: Add the virtio-msg transport
Posted by Edgar E. Iglesias 2 weeks, 3 days ago
From: "Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@amd.com>

This adds virtio-msg, a new virtio transport. Virtio-msg works by
exchanging messages over a bus and doesn't rely on trapping and emulation
making it a good fit for a number of applications such as AMP, real-time
and safety applications.

Together with the new transport, this series adds a PCI device that
implements an AMP setup much like it could look if two SoC's would
use virtio-msg across a PCI link.

Current gaps and limitations:
Shared memory FIFO layout likely to change in the future.
Temporarily uses PCI Vendor Xilinx / Device 0x9039.
Documentation.

The virtio-msg draft spec:
https://github.com/Linaro/virtio-msg-spec/

QEMU with these patches:
https://github.com/edgarigl/qemu/tree/edgar/virtio-msg-rfc

Linux with virtio-msg support:
https://github.com/edgarigl/linux/tree/edgari/virtio-msg-6.17

To try it, first build Linux with the following enabled:
CONFIG_VIRTIO_MSG=y
CONFIG_VIRTIO_MSG_AMP=y
CONFIG_VIRTIO_MSG_AMP_PCI=y

Boot linux on QEMU with a virtio-msg-amp-pci device, in this example
with a virtio-net device attached to it:

 -device virtio-msg-amp-pci
 -device virtio-net-device,netdev=n0
 -netdev user,id=n0

If you're running on a QEMU machine that has virtio-mmio enabled, e.g 
ARM virt, you'll need to specify the virtio-bus for the device, otherwise
QEMU will connect it to virtio-mmio. For ARM virt machines:

 -device virtio-msg-amp-pci
 -device virtio-net-device,netdev=n0,bus=/gpex-pcihost/pcie.0/virtio-msg-amp-pci/fifo0/virtio-msg/bus0/virtio-msg-dev
 -netdev user,id=n0

Cheers,
Edgar

Edgar E. Iglesias (5):
  virtio: Introduce notify_queue
  virtio: Add virtio_queue_get_rings
  virtio: Add the virtio-msg transport
  hw/misc: Add generic virtio-msg AMP PCI device
  docs: Describe virtio-msg-amp-pci

 .../devices/virtio/virtio-msg-amp-pci.rst     |  70 ++
 hw/misc/Kconfig                               |   7 +
 hw/misc/meson.build                           |   1 +
 hw/misc/virtio-msg-amp-pci.c                  | 328 +++++++
 hw/virtio/Kconfig                             |   4 +
 hw/virtio/meson.build                         |   5 +
 hw/virtio/virtio-msg-bus.c                    |  89 ++
 hw/virtio/virtio-msg.c                        | 695 ++++++++++++++
 hw/virtio/virtio.c                            |  23 +
 include/hw/virtio/spsc_queue.h                | 213 +++++
 include/hw/virtio/virtio-bus.h                |   1 +
 include/hw/virtio/virtio-msg-bus.h            |  95 ++
 include/hw/virtio/virtio-msg-prot.h           | 846 ++++++++++++++++++
 include/hw/virtio/virtio-msg.h                |  56 ++
 include/hw/virtio/virtio.h                    |   2 +
 15 files changed, 2435 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 docs/system/devices/virtio/virtio-msg-amp-pci.rst
 create mode 100644 hw/misc/virtio-msg-amp-pci.c
 create mode 100644 hw/virtio/virtio-msg-bus.c
 create mode 100644 hw/virtio/virtio-msg.c
 create mode 100644 include/hw/virtio/spsc_queue.h
 create mode 100644 include/hw/virtio/virtio-msg-bus.h
 create mode 100644 include/hw/virtio/virtio-msg-prot.h
 create mode 100644 include/hw/virtio/virtio-msg.h

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Re: [PATCH v1 0/5] virtio: Add the virtio-msg transport
Posted by Edgar E. Iglesias 2 weeks, 3 days ago
On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 04:23:45PM +0100, Edgar E. Iglesias wrote:
> From: "Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@amd.com>
>
> This adds virtio-msg, a new virtio transport. Virtio-msg works by


This series was meant to be an RFC but I managed to send it out without the
RFC subject tags, sorry about that!

Cheers,
Edgar