From: Muneendra Kumar M <muneendra.kumar@broadcom.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com>,
Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: emilne@redhat.com, mkumar@redhat.com,
Gaurav Srivastava <gaurav.srivastava@broadcom.com>,
James Smart <jsmart2021@gmail.com>,
Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [RFC 16/16] lpfc: vmid: Introducing vmid in io path.
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 21:56:16 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b3350b999d5500ddef49a25aafee2ea6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <227c5ba1-8a9c-3ec9-5a0f-662a4736c66f@redhat.com>
Hi Paolo,
>3.As part of this interface user/deamon will provide the details of VM such
> as UUID,PID on VM creation to the transport .
>The VM process, or the container process, is likely to be unprivileged and
>cannot obtain the permissions needed to do this; therefore, you need to
>cope with the situation where there is no PID yet in the cgroup, because
>the tool >that created the VM or container might be initializing the
>cgroup, but it might not have started the VM yet. In that case there would
>be no PID.
Agreed.A
small doubt. If the VM is started (running)then we can have the PID and we
can use the PID?
>Would it be possible to pass a file descriptor for the cgroup directory in
>sysfs, instead of the PID?
Yes we can do that.
>Also what would the kernel API look like for this? Would it have to be
>driver-specific?
The API should be generic and it should not be driver-specific.
Regards,
Muneendra.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-06 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-04 2:13 [RFC 00/16] Application specific identification support Muneendra
2020-08-04 2:13 ` [RFC 01/16] blkcg:Introduce blkio.app_identifier knob to blkio controller Muneendra
2020-08-04 11:31 ` Daniel Wagner
2020-08-04 14:21 ` Tejun Heo
2020-08-05 0:39 ` James Smart
2020-08-05 3:59 ` Ming Lei
2020-08-05 6:33 ` Hannes Reinecke
2020-08-05 14:39 ` Tejun Heo
2020-08-05 17:14 ` Muneendra Kumar M
2020-08-05 17:31 ` Tejun Heo
2020-08-06 2:22 ` Ming Lei
2020-08-06 12:31 ` Muneendra Kumar M
2020-08-06 13:41 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-08-04 2:13 ` [RFC 02/16] lpfc: vmid: Add the datastructure for supporting VMID in lpfc Muneendra
2020-08-04 2:13 ` [RFC 03/16] lpfc: vmid: API to check if VMID is enabled Muneendra
2020-08-04 2:13 ` [RFC 04/16] lpfc: vmid: Supplementary data structures for vmid Muneendra
2020-08-04 2:13 ` [RFC 05/16] lpfc: vmid: Forward declarations for APIs Muneendra
2020-08-04 2:13 ` [RFC 06/16] lpfc: vmid: Add support for vmid in mailbox command Muneendra
2020-08-04 2:13 ` [RFC 07/16] lpfc: vmid: VMID params initialization Muneendra
2020-08-04 2:13 ` [RFC 08/16] lpfc: vmid: vmid resource allocation Muneendra
2020-08-04 2:13 ` [RFC 09/16] lpfc: vmid: cleanup vmid resources Muneendra
2020-08-04 2:13 ` [RFC 10/16] lpfc: vmid: Implements ELS commands for appid patch Muneendra
2020-08-04 2:13 ` [RFC 11/16] lpfc: vmid: Functions to manage vmids Muneendra
2020-08-04 2:13 ` [RFC 12/16] lpfc: vmid: Implements CT commands for appid Muneendra
2020-08-04 2:13 ` [RFC 13/16] lpfc: vmid: Appends the vmid in the wqe before sending request Muneendra
2020-08-04 2:13 ` [RFC 14/16] lpfc: vmid: Timeout implementation for vmid Muneendra
2020-08-04 2:13 ` [RFC 15/16] lpfc: vmid: Adding qfpa and vmid timeout check in worker thread Muneendra
2020-08-04 2:13 ` [RFC 16/16] lpfc: vmid: Introducing vmid in io path Muneendra
2020-08-05 7:16 ` Hannes Reinecke
2020-08-05 23:38 ` James Smart
2020-08-06 12:34 ` Muneendra Kumar M
2020-08-06 14:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-08-06 16:26 ` Muneendra Kumar M [this message]
2020-08-06 18:41 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-08-07 11:24 ` Muneendra Kumar M
2020-08-07 11:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-08-07 12:17 ` Muneendra Kumar M
2020-08-10 9:03 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-08-10 12:13 ` Muneendra Kumar M
2020-08-12 7:54 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-08-12 12:16 ` Muneendra Kumar M
2020-08-07 12:32 ` Muneendra Kumar M
2020-08-11 23:48 ` James Smart
2020-08-06 14:41 ` Tejun Heo
2020-08-06 14:46 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-08-06 14:48 ` Tejun Heo
2020-08-06 14:54 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-08-06 14:59 ` Tejun Heo
2020-08-06 18:39 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-08-06 18:49 ` Tejun Heo
2020-08-06 19:20 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-08-06 19:32 ` Tejun Heo
2020-08-07 12:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
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