From: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
To: Andra Paraschiv <andraprs@amazon.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
David Duncan <davdunc@amazon.com>,
Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>, Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.de>,
Jorgen Hansen <jhansen@vmware.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/4] vm_sockets: Add VMADDR_FLAG_TO_HOST vsock flag
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 10:59:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201207095935.um2aafhvoikwy5xr@steredhat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201204170235.84387-3-andraprs@amazon.com>
On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 07:02:33PM +0200, Andra Paraschiv wrote:
>Add VMADDR_FLAG_TO_HOST vsock flag that is used to setup a vsock
>connection where all the packets are forwarded to the host.
>
>Then, using this type of vsock channel, vsock communication between
>sibling VMs can be built on top of it.
>
>Changelog
>
>v1 -> v2
>
>* New patch in v2, it was split from the first patch in the series.
>* Remove the default value for the vsock flags field.
>* Update the naming for the vsock flag to "VMADDR_FLAG_TO_HOST".
>
>Signed-off-by: Andra Paraschiv <andraprs@amazon.com>
>---
> include/uapi/linux/vm_sockets.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
>
>diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/vm_sockets.h b/include/uapi/linux/vm_sockets.h
>index 46735376a57a8..72e1a3d05682d 100644
>--- a/include/uapi/linux/vm_sockets.h
>+++ b/include/uapi/linux/vm_sockets.h
>@@ -114,6 +114,21 @@
>
> #define VMADDR_CID_HOST 2
>
>+/* The current default use case for the vsock channel is the following:
>+ * local vsock communication between guest and host and nested VMs setup.
>+ * In addition to this, implicitly, the vsock packets are forwarded to the host
>+ * if no host->guest vsock transport is set.
>+ *
>+ * Set this flag value in the sockaddr_vm corresponding field if the vsock
>+ * packets need to be always forwarded to the host. Using this behavior,
>+ * vsock communication between sibling VMs can be setup.
Maybe we can add a sentence saying that this flag is set on the remote
peer address for an incoming connection when it is routed from the host
(local CID and remote CID > VMADDR_CID_HOST).
>+ *
>+ * This way can explicitly distinguish between vsock channels created for
>+ * different use cases, such as nested VMs (or local communication between
>+ * guest and host) and sibling VMs.
>+ */
>+#define VMADDR_FLAG_TO_HOST 0x0001
>+
> /* Invalid vSockets version. */
>
> #define VM_SOCKETS_INVALID_VERSION -1U
>--
>2.20.1 (Apple Git-117)
>
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-07 10:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-04 17:02 [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] vsock: Add flags field in the vsock address Andra Paraschiv
2020-12-04 17:02 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/4] vm_sockets: Include flags field in the vsock address data structure Andra Paraschiv
2020-12-07 9:59 ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-12-07 19:25 ` Paraschiv, Andra-Irina
2020-12-07 21:29 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-12-08 18:23 ` Paraschiv, Andra-Irina
2020-12-08 18:42 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-12-09 10:48 ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-12-09 15:17 ` Paraschiv, Andra-Irina
2020-12-09 17:30 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-12-10 15:29 ` Paraschiv, Andra-Irina
2020-12-04 17:02 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/4] vm_sockets: Add VMADDR_FLAG_TO_HOST vsock flag Andra Paraschiv
2020-12-07 9:59 ` Stefano Garzarella [this message]
2020-12-07 19:45 ` Paraschiv, Andra-Irina
2020-12-04 17:02 ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/4] af_vsock: Set VMADDR_FLAG_TO_HOST flag on the receive path Andra Paraschiv
2020-12-07 9:59 ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-12-04 17:02 ` [PATCH net-next v2 4/4] af_vsock: Assign the vsock transport considering the vsock address flags Andra Paraschiv
2020-12-07 10:00 ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-12-07 19:51 ` Paraschiv, Andra-Irina
2020-12-07 10:05 ` [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] vsock: Add flags field in the vsock address Stefano Garzarella
2020-12-07 19:18 ` Paraschiv, Andra-Irina
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