From: "Wang, Wei W" <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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Subject: RE: [RFC] hypercall-vsock: add a new vsock transport
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 08:02:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <03b779ac2f504fa989559f16e75817d3@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YYuSKEqj3UMLNAfw@stefanha-x1.localdomain>
> From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
On Wednesday, November 10, 2021 5:35 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> AF_VSOCK is designed to allow multiple transports, so why not. There is a cost
> to developing and maintaining a vsock transport though.
Yes. The effort could be reduced via simplifying the design as much as possible:
e.g. no ring operations - guest just sends a packet each time for the host to read.
(this transport isn't targeting for high performance)
>
> I think Amazon Nitro enclaves use virtio-vsock and I've CCed Andra in case she
> has thoughts on the pros/cons and how to minimize the trusted computing
> base.
Thanks for adding more related person to the discussion loop.
>
> If simplicity is the top priority then VIRTIO's MMIO transport without indirect
> descriptors and using the packed virtqueue layout reduces the size of the
> implementation:
> https://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.1/cs01/virtio-v1.1-cs01.html#x1-1
> 440002
I listed some considerations for virtio-mmio in the response to Michael.
Please have a check if any different thoughts.
Thanks,
Wei
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-11 8:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2021-11-10 9:34 ` [RFC] hypercall-vsock: add a new vsock transport Stefan Hajnoczi
2021-11-11 8:02 ` Wang, Wei W [this message]
2021-11-10 10:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-11-11 7:58 ` Wang, Wei W
2021-11-11 15:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-11-25 6:37 ` Jason Wang
2021-11-25 8:43 ` Wang, Wei W
2021-11-25 12:04 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2021-11-10 11:17 ` Stefano Garzarella
2021-11-10 21:45 ` Paraschiv, Andra-Irina
2021-11-11 8:14 ` Wang, Wei W
2021-11-11 8:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
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