netdev - Re: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH 0/6] VSOCK for Linux upstreaming

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Message-ID: <362258122.36962636.1359149614436.JavaMail.root@vmware.com>
Date:	Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:33:34 -0800 (PST)
From:	Andy King <acking@...are.com>
To:	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>
Cc:	pv-drivers@...are.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH 0/6] VSOCK for Linux upstreaming

> > > Our position is that VSOCK feature set is more complete and that
> > > it
> > > should be possible to use transports other than VMCI for VSOCK
> > > traffic, should interested parties implement them,
> > 
> > Implementing other transports requires restructing vsock (and vmci)
> > first as the current vsock code is not a hypervisor neutral
> > service.
> 
> I'm going to bite the bullet and spend the next couple of days doing
> just that: factoring out the VMCI bits and hiding them behind a
> transport layer.  It'll be a bit rough, but it'll be a start.  We'll
> submit another patch series next week with that.  I'm hoping that'll
> get us over this hump, since it should by hypervisor agnostic at
> that point.  It'll be up to you guys to add virtio, though :)

I sent out a patch series this morning that splits out our code into a
core part, containing the socket family/operations, and a VMCI-specific
part.  The core makes callbacks via a new transport layer into VMCI.
It's not perfect -- there's still some cruft in the core socket
structure -- but it lays the foundation of a hypervisor-neutral channel,
and hopefully we can build on this with your help.  It'd be great if
you could take a look.

Thanks!
- Andy
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