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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@wp.pl>
Cc: "Duyck, Alexander H" <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>,
	virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	Siwei Liu <loseweigh@gmail.com>, Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/3] Enable virtio_net to act as a backup for a passthru device
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 08:08:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180228070839.GA19654@nanopsycho> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180227134149.2bff667e@cakuba.netronome.com>

Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 10:41:49PM CET, kubakici@wp.pl wrote:
>On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 13:16:21 -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>> Basically we need some sort of PCI or PCIe topology mapping for the
>> devices that can be translated into something we can communicate over
>> the communication channel. 
>
>Hm.  This is probably a completely stupid idea, but if we need to
>start marshalling configuration requests/hints maybe the entire problem
>could be solved by opening a netlink socket from hypervisor?  Even make
>teamd run on the hypervisor side...

Interesting. That would be more trickier then just to fwd 1 genetlink
socket to the hypervisor.

Also, I think that the solution should handle multiple guest oses. What
I'm thinking about is some generic bonding description passed over some
communication channel into vm. The vm either use it for configuration,
or ignores it if it is not smart enough/updated enough.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-28  7:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 121+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-16 18:11 [RFC PATCH v3 0/3] Enable virtio_net to act as a backup for a passthru device Sridhar Samudrala
2018-02-16 18:11 ` [virtio-dev] " Sridhar Samudrala
2018-02-16 18:11 ` [RFC PATCH v3 1/3] virtio_net: Introduce VIRTIO_NET_F_BACKUP feature bit Sridhar Samudrala
2018-02-16 18:11 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2018-02-16 18:11   ` [virtio-dev] " Sridhar Samudrala
2018-02-16 18:11 ` [RFC PATCH v3 2/3] virtio_net: Extend virtio to use VF datapath when available Sridhar Samudrala
2018-02-16 18:11 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2018-02-16 18:11   ` [virtio-dev] " Sridhar Samudrala
2018-02-17  3:04   ` Jakub Kicinski
2018-02-17 17:41     ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-17  3:04   ` Jakub Kicinski
2018-02-16 18:11 ` [RFC PATCH v3 3/3] virtio_net: Enable alternate datapath without creating an additional netdev Sridhar Samudrala
2018-02-16 18:11   ` [virtio-dev] " Sridhar Samudrala
2018-02-16 18:11 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2018-02-17  2:38 ` [RFC PATCH v3 0/3] Enable virtio_net to act as a backup for a passthru device Jakub Kicinski
2018-02-17  2:38 ` Jakub Kicinski
2018-02-17 17:12   ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-17 17:12     ` [virtio-dev] " Alexander Duyck
2018-02-19  6:11     ` Jakub Kicinski
2018-02-20 16:26       ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-02-20 16:26         ` [virtio-dev] " Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-02-20 16:26       ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-02-21 23:50     ` Siwei Liu
2018-02-21 23:50       ` [virtio-dev] " Siwei Liu
2018-02-22  0:17       ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-22  0:17       ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-22  0:17         ` [virtio-dev] " Alexander Duyck
2018-02-22  1:59         ` Siwei Liu
2018-02-22  1:59         ` Siwei Liu
2018-02-22  1:59           ` [virtio-dev] " Siwei Liu
2018-02-22  2:35           ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-02-22  2:35           ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-02-22  2:35             ` [virtio-dev] " Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-02-22  3:28             ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-02-22  3:28               ` [virtio-dev] " Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-02-23 22:22             ` Siwei Liu
2018-02-23 22:22               ` [virtio-dev] " Siwei Liu
2018-02-23 22:38               ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-24  0:17                 ` Siwei Liu
2018-02-24  0:17                   ` [virtio-dev] " Siwei Liu
2018-02-24  0:03         ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-02-25 22:17           ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-25 22:17             ` [virtio-dev] " Alexander Duyck
2018-02-25 22:17           ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-21 23:50     ` Siwei Liu
2018-02-17 17:12   ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-20 10:42 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-20 16:04   ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-20 16:04     ` [virtio-dev] " Alexander Duyck
2018-02-20 16:29     ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-20 17:14       ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-02-20 17:14         ` [virtio-dev] " Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-02-20 20:14         ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-20 21:02           ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-20 21:02             ` [virtio-dev] " Alexander Duyck
2018-02-20 21:02           ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-20 22:33           ` Jakub Kicinski
2018-02-21  9:51             ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-21 15:56               ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-21 15:56                 ` [virtio-dev] " Alexander Duyck
2018-02-21 16:11                 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-21 16:49                   ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-21 16:49                     ` [virtio-dev] " Alexander Duyck
2018-02-21 16:58                     ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-21 17:56                       ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-21 17:56                       ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-21 17:56                         ` [virtio-dev] " Alexander Duyck
2018-02-21 19:38                         ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-21 20:57                           ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-21 20:57                             ` [virtio-dev] " Alexander Duyck
2018-02-22  2:02                             ` Jakub Kicinski
2018-02-22  2:15                               ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-02-22  2:15                                 ` [virtio-dev] " Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-02-22  2:15                               ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-02-22  8:11                             ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-22 11:54                               ` Or Gerlitz
2018-02-22 13:07                                 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-22 15:30                                   ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-22 15:30                                     ` [virtio-dev] " Alexander Duyck
2018-02-22 21:30                               ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-22 21:30                                 ` [virtio-dev] " Alexander Duyck
2018-02-23 23:59                                 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-02-25 22:21                                   ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-25 22:21                                   ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-25 22:21                                     ` [virtio-dev] " Alexander Duyck
2018-02-26  7:19                                   ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-27  1:02                                     ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-02-27  1:18                                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-27  1:18                                         ` [virtio-dev] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-27  8:27                                         ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-22 21:30                               ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-21 20:57                           ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-21 16:49                   ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-21 15:56               ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-20 17:14       ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-02-20 17:23       ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-20 17:23         ` [virtio-dev] " Alexander Duyck
2018-02-20 19:53         ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-27  8:49     ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-27 21:16       ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-27 21:16       ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-27 21:16         ` [virtio-dev] " Alexander Duyck
2018-02-27 21:23         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-27 21:23           ` [virtio-dev] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-27 21:41         ` Jakub Kicinski
2018-02-28  7:08           ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2018-02-28 14:32             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-28 14:32               ` [virtio-dev] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-28 15:11               ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-28 15:45                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-28 15:45                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-28 15:45                   ` [virtio-dev] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-28 19:25                   ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-28 20:48                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-28 20:48                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-28 20:48                       ` [virtio-dev] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-27 21:30       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-27 21:30         ` [virtio-dev] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-27 21:30       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-20 16:04   ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-16 18:11 Sridhar Samudrala

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