From: Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: RE: [Patch v5 0/3] Introduce a driver to support host accelerated access to Microsoft Azure Blob for Azure VM
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 19:38:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BY5PR21MB1506196929D2BD0300B4388ACEB59@BY5PR21MB1506.namprd21.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YWR7TuGNaMJLXdVr@kroah.com>
> Subject: Re: [Patch v5 0/3] Introduce a driver to support host accelerated access
> to Microsoft Azure Blob for Azure VM
>
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 05:46:48PM +0000, Long Li wrote:
> > > Subject: Re: [Patch v5 0/3] Introduce a driver to support host
> > > accelerated access to Microsoft Azure Blob for Azure VM
> > >
> > > Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes:
> > >
> > > ...
> > > >
> > > > Not to mention the whole crazy idea of "let's implement our REST
> > > > api that used to go over a network connection over an ioctl instead!"
> > > > That's the main problem that you need to push back on here.
> > > >
> > > > What is forcing you to put all of this into the kernel in the
> > > > first place? What's wrong with the userspace network
> > > > connection/protocol that you have today?
> > > >
> > > > Does this mean that we now have to implement all REST apis that
> > > > people dream up as ioctl interfaces over a hyperv transport? That
> > > > would be insane.
> > >
> > > As far as I understand, the purpose of the driver is to replace a "slow"
> > > network connection to API endpoint with a "fast" transport over
> > > Vmbus. So what if instead of implementing this new driver we just
> > > use Hyper-V Vsock and move API endpoint to the host?
> >
> > Hi Vitaly,
> >
> > We looked at Hyper-V Vsock when designing this driver. The problem is that
> the Hyper-V device model of Vsock can't support the data throughput and scale
> needed for Blobs. Vsock is mostly used for management tasks.
> >
> > The usage of Blob in Azure justifies an dedicated VMBUS channel (and sub-
> channels) for a new VSP/VSC driver.
>
> Why not just fix the vsock code to handle data better? That way all users of it
> would benefit.
Hi Greg,
The Vsock is connection based. On both Guest and Host, the model is around a connection over a socket. Internally, the Hyper-V creates a device for each connection. But it doesn't scale to large number of CPUs over a socket connection. Hyper-V vsock is designed to perform configuration management for a VM running on Hyper-V.
The Azure Blob service is not connection based. It doesn't fit into the device model presented by Vsock from Hyper-V.
Thanks,
Long
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-11 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-05 7:00 [Patch v5 0/3] Introduce a driver to support host accelerated access to Microsoft Azure Blob for Azure VM longli
2021-08-05 7:00 ` [Patch v5 1/3] Drivers: hv: vmbus: add support to ignore certain PCIE devices longli
2021-08-05 7:00 ` [Patch v5 2/3] Drivers: hv: add Azure Blob driver longli
2021-08-05 7:11 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-08-05 18:07 ` Long Li
2021-08-05 18:16 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-08-05 17:06 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-08-05 18:10 ` Long Li
2021-08-05 18:17 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-09-07 21:42 ` Michael Kelley
2021-08-05 7:00 ` [Patch v5 3/3] Drivers: hv: Add to maintainer for Hyper-V/Azure drivers longli
2021-08-05 7:08 ` [Patch v5 0/3] Introduce a driver to support host accelerated access to Microsoft Azure Blob for Azure VM Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-08-05 18:27 ` Long Li
2021-08-05 18:33 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-08-05 17:09 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-08-05 18:24 ` Long Li
2021-08-05 18:34 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-08-07 18:29 ` Long Li
2021-08-08 5:14 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-08-10 3:01 ` Long Li
2021-09-22 23:55 ` Long Li
2021-09-30 22:25 ` Long Li
2021-10-01 7:36 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-10-07 18:15 ` Long Li
2021-10-08 5:54 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-10-08 11:11 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2021-10-08 11:19 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-10-08 13:28 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2021-10-11 17:57 ` Long Li
2021-10-13 0:58 ` Long Li
2021-10-13 7:03 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-10-11 17:55 ` Long Li
2021-10-11 17:46 ` Long Li
2021-10-11 17:58 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-10-11 19:38 ` Long Li [this message]
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