From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: "Alexander Aring" <aahringo@redhat.com>,
"Stefan Metzmacher" <metze@samba.org>,
"Steve French" <smfrench@gmail.com>,
"Aurélien Aptel" <aaptel@suse.com>,
"Network Development" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-nfs <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
CIFS <linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org>,
"Leif Sahlberg" <lsahlber@redhat.com>,
"Steven Whitehouse" <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: quic in-kernel implementation?
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2021 09:48:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210609094818.7aaf21bd@kicinski-fedora-PC1C0HJN.hsd1.ca.comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210608153349.0f02ba71@hermes.local>
On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 15:33:49 -0700 Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 17:03:16 -0400
> > > With having the fuse-like socket before it should be trivial to switch
> > > between the implementations.
> >
> > So a good starting point would be to have such a "fuse-like socket"
> > component? What about having a simple example for that at first
> > without having quic involved. The kernel calls some POSIX-like socket
> > interface which triggers a communication to a user space application.
> > This user space application will then map everything to a user space
> > generated socket. This would be a map from socket struct
> > "proto/proto_ops" to user space and vice versa. The kernel application
> > probably can use the kernel_FOO() (e.g. kernel_recvmsg()) socket api
> > directly then. Exactly like "fuse" as you mentioned just for sockets.
> >
> > I think two veth interfaces can help to test something like that,
> > either with a "fuse-like socket" on the other end or an user space
> > application. Just doing a ping-pong example.
> >
> > Afterwards we can look at how to replace the user generated socket
> > application with any $LIBQUIC e.g. msquic implementation as second
> > step.
>
> Socket state management is complex and timers etc in userspace are hard.
+1 seeing the struggles fuse causes in storage land "fuse for sockets"
is not an exciting temporary solution IMHO..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-09 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-07 15:25 quic in-kernel implementation? Alexander Ahring Oder Aring
2021-06-07 16:45 ` Aurélien Aptel
2021-06-08 3:04 ` Steve French
2021-06-08 7:36 ` Stefan Metzmacher
2021-06-08 21:03 ` Alexander Aring
2021-06-08 22:33 ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-06-09 16:48 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2021-06-09 18:44 ` Alexander Aring
2021-06-13 12:17 ` David Laight
2021-06-13 18:08 ` Alexander Aring
2021-06-08 21:26 ` Chuck Lever III
2021-06-07 17:29 ` Chuck Lever III
2021-06-08 20:51 ` Vadim Fedorenko
2021-06-08 21:06 ` Alexander Aring
2021-06-09 0:27 ` Vadim Fedorenko
2021-09-05 14:09 ` Eric Curtin
2021-09-05 23:38 ` Steve French
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