Re: [PATCH v4 00/17] Wind River Systems AVP PMD vs virtio? - ivshmem is back

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From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon@6wind.com]
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2017 4:49 AM

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I think there is one interesting technological point in this thread.
We are discussing about IVSHMEM but its support by Qemu is confused.
This feature is not in the MAINTAINERS file of Qemu.
Please Qemu maintainers, what is the future of IVSHMEM?

I need to clarify a technical point.  AVP is not ivshmem; at least not in the strict sense of the term.   We initially started out using ivshmem as-is but then we needed to fork from that in order to add functionality that we needed to better integrate with our solution.  AVP is now a separate Wind River specific extension completely independent of any past ivshmem implementation.  I used the term ivshmem in the documentation to provide context to the reader to understand, by comparison, what type of shared memory model we are using.  I can remove that reference if it leads to confusion or a desire to make direct comparisons with ivshmem.