From: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
To: Jorgen Hansen <jhansen@vmware.com>
Cc: "mtk.manpages@gmail.com" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
"linux-man@vger.kernel.org" <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] vsock.7: add VMADDR_CID_LOCAL description
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 18:27:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200217172750.lutmlnbtp2rdpiw6@steredhat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MWHPR05MB3376C52124D5BB1835CC3362DA160@MWHPR05MB3376.namprd05.prod.outlook.com>
On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 01:55:58PM +0000, Jorgen Hansen wrote:
> > From: Stefano Garzarella [mailto:sgarzare@redhat.com]
> > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2020 2:08 PM
> > To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com
> > Cc: Jorgen Hansen <jhansen@vmware.com>; linux-man@vger.kernel.org;
> > Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>; Dexuan Cui
> > <decui@microsoft.com>; netdev@vger.kernel.org
> > Subject: [PATCH v2] vsock.7: add VMADDR_CID_LOCAL description
> >
> > Linux 5.6 added the new well-known VMADDR_CID_LOCAL for local
> > communication.
> >
> > This patch explains how to use it and remove the legacy
> > VMADDR_CID_RESERVED no longer available.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
> > ---
> > v2:
> > * rephrased "Local communication" description [Stefan]
> > * added a mention of previous versions that supported
> > loopback only in the guest [Stefan]
> > ---
>
>
> > @@ -222,6 +232,11 @@ are valid.
> > Support for VMware (VMCI) has been available since Linux 3.9.
> > KVM (virtio) is supported since Linux 4.8.
> > Hyper-V is supported since Linux 4.14.
> > +.PP
> > +VMADDR_CID_LOCAL is supported since Linux 5.6.
> > +Local communication in the guest and on the host is available since Linux
> > 5.6.
> > +Previous versions partially supported it only in the guest and only
> > +with some transports (VMCI and virtio).
>
> Maybe rephrase the last part slightly to something like:
>
> Previous versions only supported local communication within a guest (not on the host),
> and only with some transports (VMCI and virtio).
I think it is better, I'll send a v3 with this part changed :-)
>
> Otherwise, looks good to me. Thanks for making this update.
>
> Reviewed-by: Jorgen Hansen <jhansen@vmware.com>
>
Thanks,
Stefano
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-17 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-14 13:07 [PATCH v2] vsock.7: add VMADDR_CID_LOCAL description Stefano Garzarella
2020-02-14 19:35 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-02-17 13:55 ` Jorgen Hansen
2020-02-17 17:27 ` Stefano Garzarella [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20200217172750.lutmlnbtp2rdpiw6@steredhat \
--to=sgarzare@redhat.com \
--cc=decui@microsoft.com \
--cc=jhansen@vmware.com \
--cc=linux-man@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mtk.manpages@gmail.com \
--cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=stefanha@redhat.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).