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[217.232.48.112]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id p3sm2158286ejy.20.2021.08.18.06.42.24 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 18 Aug 2021 06:42:24 -0700 (PDT) To: QEMU Developers , Dmitry Fleytman , Jason Wang From: Thomas Huth Subject: Is QEMU's vmxnet3 still being used? Message-ID: <7ec1626e-3c4b-c9e8-1a29-f576163712f5@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 15:42:23 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Authentication-Results: relay.mimecast.com; auth=pass smtp.auth=CUSA124A263 smtp.mailfrom=thuth@redhat.com X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Received-SPF: pass client-ip=216.205.24.124; envelope-from=thuth@redhat.com; helo=us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com X-Spam_score_int: -34 X-Spam_score: -3.5 X-Spam_bar: --- X-Spam_report: (-3.5 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH=-0.7, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Yuri Benditovich , Andrew Melnychenko , Leonid Bloch , Stefan Hajnoczi , Alexander Bulekov Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" Hi all, I recently noticed that we have quite a bunch of tickets against the vmxnet3 device in our bug trackers, which indicate that this device could be used to crash QEMU in various ways: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues?state=opened&search=vmxnet3 https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu?field.searchtext=vmxnet3 Having hardly any knowledge about this device and its usage at all, I wonder how much it is still used out there in the wild? If there are still many users of this device, is there anybody interested here in helping to get these crashes fixed in the near future? Otherwise, should we maybe rather mark this device as deprecated and remove it in a couple of releases? What do you think? Thomas