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2013 Jul 15
8
[PATCH 0 of 7 v5] Introduce the tapback daemon (most of blkback in user-space)
This patch series introduces the tapback daemon, the user space daemon that
acts as a device''s back-end, essentially most of blkback in user space. The
daemon is responsible for coordinating the front-end and tapdisk. It creates
tapdisk process as needed, instructs them to connect to/disconnect from the
shared ring, and manages t...
2013 Jul 15
6
[PATCH 0 of 6 RESEND v2] blktap3/sring: shared ring between tapdisk and the front-end
This patch series introduces the shared ring used by the front-end to pass
request descriptors to tapdisk, as well as responses from tapdisk to the
front-end. Requests from this ring end up in tapdisk''s standard request queue.
When the tapback daemon detects that the front-end tries to connect to the
back-end, it spawns a tapdisk and tells it to connect to the shared ring. The
shared ring is created by the tapdisk using the grant references and the event
channel port, supplied by tapback. Once the ring is created, tapdisk watches
the eve...
2013 Jul 15
21
[PATCH 00 of 21 RESEND] blktap3/drivers: Introduce tapdisk server.
This patch series copies the core of the tapdisk process from blktap2, with
updates coming from blktap2.5.
Signed-off-by: Thanos Makatos <thanos.makatos@citrix.com>