> > David Gilbert, Gerd Hoffmann, and I have discussed adding shared memory
> > resources to VIRTIO. That means memory made available by the device to
> > the driver instead of the usual other way around.
> >
> > virtio-gpu needs this and perhaps that use case overlaps with yours too.
>
> virtio-gpu specifically needs that to support vulkan and opengl
> extensions for coherent buffers, which must be allocated by the host gpu
> driver. It's WIP still.
Thank you, Stefan and Gerd for looking into it. Yes, Vulkan is our
first use case
for the memory sharing device.
I will take a look to the draft Stefan provided to see how it is
different from what we
are thinking about.
Regards,
Roman.
