netdev - Re: [PATCH v7 15/33] net: xen-netback

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Message-ID: <1404994390.8558.4.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com>
Date:	Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:13:10 +0100
From:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
To:	Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>
CC:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 15/33] net: xen-netback - set name assign type

On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 12:46 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 10:17 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> >> The name contains then xen handle, which is not guaranteed to be
> >> stable between restarts, so label this NET_NAME_ENUM.
> >
> > FWIW the N'th interface for domain with domid D will always be named
> > vifD.N.
> >
> > If you reboot domain D then it's domid will change to E and the new
> > device will be vifE.N.
> >
> > I don't know if that counts as predictable as far as the interface you
> > are introducing is concerned.
> 
> That was my understanding, thanks for confirming.
> 
> The idea is that the same interface on the same machine must get the
> same name between reboots in order to be considered predictable. So
> under the assumption that a rebooted domain should be considered "the
> same machine" (i.e., it still has the same local configuration,
> possibly referencing the interface names), then we should consider the
> names not predictable, so NET_NAME_ENUM.

OK, thanks. I'll defer to you understanding of what this interface is
supposed to mean: Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>

Ian.


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