netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/3] Enable virtio_net to act as a backup for a passthru device

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Message-ID: <20180227134149.2bff667e@cakuba.netronome.com>
Date:   Tue, 27 Feb 2018 13:41:49 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@...pl>
To:     Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Cc:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        virtio-dev@...ts.oasis-open.org,
        "Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
        "Duyck, Alexander H" <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        Siwei Liu <loseweigh@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/3] Enable virtio_net to act as a backup for a
 passthru device

On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 13:16:21 -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> Basically we need some sort of PCI or PCIe topology mapping for the
> devices that can be translated into something we can communicate over
> the communication channel. 

Hm.  This is probably a completely stupid idea, but if we need to
start marshalling configuration requests/hints maybe the entire problem
could be solved by opening a netlink socket from hypervisor?  Even make
teamd run on the hypervisor side...