From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 net-next 4/4] netvsc: refactor notifier/event handling code to use the failover framework Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 04:42:22 +0300 Message-ID: <20180424043042-mutt-send-email-mst__34304.6559523374$1524534045$gmane$org@kernel.org> References: <1524188524-28411-1-git-send-email-sridhar.samudrala@intel.com> <1524188524-28411-5-git-send-email-sridhar.samudrala@intel.com> <20180420082802.6ca37e4c@xeon-e3> <20180420160058.GB2150@nanopsycho.orion> <20180423100406.71b95f74@xeon-e3> <20180423202204-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20180423104440.2fe6cfd2@xeon-e3> <20180423205019-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20180423182503.353180c9@xeon-e3> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180423182503.353180c9@xeon-e3> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Alexander Duyck , virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, Jiri Pirko , Jakub Kicinski , Netdev , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Siwei Liu , Sridhar Samudrala , David Miller List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 06:25:03PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 12:44:39 -0700 > Siwei Liu wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 10:56 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 10:44:40AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > >> On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 20:24:56 +0300 > > >> "Michael S. Tsirkin" wrote: > > >> > > >> > On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 10:04:06AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > >> > > > > > > >> > > > >I will NAK patches to change to common code for netvsc especially the > > >> > > > >three device model. MS worked hard with distro vendors to support transparent > > >> > > > >mode, ans we really can't have a new model; or do backport. > > >> > > > > > > >> > > > >Plus, DPDK is now dependent on existing model. > > >> > > > > > >> > > > Sorry, but nobody here cares about dpdk or other similar oddities. > > >> > > > > >> > > The network device model is a userspace API, and DPDK is a userspace application. > > >> > > > >> > It is userspace but are you sure dpdk is actually poking at netdevs? > > >> > AFAIK it's normally banging device registers directly. > > >> > > > >> > > You can't go breaking userspace even if you don't like the application. > > >> > > > >> > Could you please explain how is the proposed patchset breaking > > >> > userspace? Ignoring DPDK for now, I don't think it changes the userspace > > >> > API at all. > > >> > > > >> > > >> The DPDK has a device driver vdev_netvsc which scans the Linux network devices > > >> to look for Linux netvsc device and the paired VF device and setup the > > >> DPDK environment. This setup creates a DPDK failsafe (bondingish) instance > > >> and sets up TAP support over the Linux netvsc device as well as the Mellanox > > >> VF device. > > >> > > >> So it depends on existing 2 device model. You can't go to a 3 device model > > >> or start hiding devices from userspace. > > > > > > Okay so how does the existing patch break that? IIUC does not go to > > > a 3 device model since netvsc calls failover_register directly. > > > > > >> Also, I am working on associating netvsc and VF device based on serial number > > >> rather than MAC address. The serial number is how Windows works now, and it makes > > >> sense for Linux and Windows to use the same mechanism if possible. > > > > > > Maybe we should support same for virtio ... > > > Which serial do you mean? From vpd? > > > > > > I guess you will want to keep supporting MAC for old hypervisors? > > The serial number has always been in the hypervisor since original support of SR-IOV > in WS2008. So no backward compatibility special cases would be needed. Is that a serial from real hardware or a hypervisor thing? -- MST