On 2019/8/20 16:09, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > * Peng Tao (tao.peng at linux.alibaba.com) wrote: >> >> >> On 2019/8/20 00:04, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >>> I am delighted to announce the release of virtio-fs v0.3, a shared file >>> system that lets virtual machines access a directory tree on the host. >>> This release is based on QEMU 4.1.0 and Linux 5.3-rc3. >>> >> Good news! As virtio-fs is maturing and stabilizing, what's the plan for >> upstreaming both qemu and kernel part of it? > > We're working on that. > A few days ago I sent the core qemu code to qemu-devel marked as > experiemental; Vivek is planning on sending another kernel version out. > Cool. Looking forward to seeing them in upstream code base;) Cheers, Tao > Dave > >> Cheers, >> Tao >> >>> For more information about virtio-fs: https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/ >>> >>> This is a development release aimed at early adopters of virtio-fs. Work is >>> being done to upstream the code into Linux and QEMU. We expect to stop >>> publishing virtio-fs releases once the code has been merged by these upstream >>> projects. >>> >>> Where to get it: >>> >>> https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/linux/-/tags/virtio-fs-v0.3 >>> https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/qemu/-/tags/virtio-fs-v0.3 >>> >>> Changes: >>> >>> * Please note that the mount syntax has changed to: >>> >>> # mount -t virtio_fs myfs /mnt -o ... >>> >>> The old syntax was "mount -t virtio_fs none /mnt -o tag=myfs,...". >>> >>> * virtiofsd --fd=FDNUM takes a listen socket file descriptor number. File >>> descriptor passing is an alternative way to manage the vhost-user UNIX >>> domain socket. The parent process no longer needs to wait for virtiofsd to >>> create the listen socket before spawning the VM. >>> >>> * virtiofsd --syslog logs to syslog(2) instead of stderr. Useful for unifying >>> logging and when the virtiofsd process is not being supervised. >>> >>> * virtiofsd --thread-pool-size=NUM sets the maximum number of worker threads >>> for FUSE request processing. This can be used to control the host queue >>> depth. The default is 64. >>> >>> * Performance improvements and bug fixes. >>> >>> Note for Kata Containers: the new kernel is not compatible with existing >>> Kata Containers releases due to the mount syntax change. To try it out, >>> please apply the following kata-runtime patch: >>> >>> https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/runtime/commit/a2e44de817e438c02a495cf258039774527e3178 >>> >>> Kata Containers patches for virtio-fs v0.3 are under development and will be >>> submitted to Kata soon. >>> >>> Thanks to the following people for contributing code and to many more >>> for helping the virtio-fs effort: >>> >>> Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert at redhat.com> >>> Eric Ren <renzhen at linux.alibaba.com> >>> Eryu Guan <eguan at linux.alibaba.com> >>> Ganesh Maharaj Mahalingam <ganesh.mahalingam at intel.com> >>> Jiufei Xue <jiufei.xue at linux.alibaba.com> >>> Liu Bo <bo.liu at linux.alibaba.com> >>> Masayoshi Mizuma <m.mizuma at jp.fujitsu.com> >>> Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi at redhat.com> >>> Peng Tao <tao.peng at linux.alibaba.com> >>> piaojun <piaojun at huawei.com> >>> Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf at intel.com> >>> Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha at redhat.com> >>> Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com> >>> Xiaoguang Wang <xiaoguang.wang at linux.alibaba.com> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> kata-dev mailing list >>> kata-dev at lists.katacontainers.io >>> http://lists.katacontainers.io/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kata-dev >>> >> >> -- >> Into something rich and strange. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> kata-dev mailing list >> kata-dev at lists.katacontainers.io >> http://lists.katacontainers.io/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kata-dev > -- > Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert at redhat.com / Manchester, UK > -- Into something rich and strange.