From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Yang, Zhiyong" Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] net/virtio-user: add support for server mode Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 09:21:39 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20180403122009.52876-2-zhiyong.yang@intel.com> <20180404171753.43422-1-zhiyong.yang@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: "maxime.coquelin@redhat.com" , "thomas@monjalon.net" , "Tan, Jianfeng" , "Wang, Zhihong" , "Bie, Tiwei" , "Wang, Dong1" To: "dev@dpdk.org" Return-path: Received: from mga06.intel.com (mga06.intel.com [134.134.136.31]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD4DD1C943 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2018 11:21:44 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <20180404171753.43422-1-zhiyong.yang@intel.com> Content-Language: en-US List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Ping Maxime, Jianfeng Do you have any comments about the patch? Thanks Zhiyong > -----Original Message----- > From: Yang, Zhiyong > Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2018 1:18 AM > To: dev@dpdk.org > Cc: maxime.coquelin@redhat.com; thomas@monjalon.net; Tan, Jianfeng > ; Wang, Zhihong ; Bie, > Tiwei ; Wang, Dong1 ; Yang, > Zhiyong > Subject: [PATCH v5] net/virtio-user: add support for server mode >=20 > In a container environment if the vhost-user backend restarts, there's no > way for it to reconnect to virtio-user. To address this, support for serv= er > mode is added. In this mode the socket file is created by virtio- user, w= hich > the backend then connects to. This means that if the backend restarts, it= can > reconnect to virtio-user and continue communications. >=20 > With current implementation, LSC is enabled at virtio-user side to suppor= t to > accept the coming connection. >=20 > Release note is updated in this patch. >=20 > Signed-off-by: Zhiyong Yang > ---