netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH 00/13] vsock: add multi-transports support

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Date:   Fri, 4 Oct 2019 11:16:05 +0200
From:   Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@...hat.com>
To:     Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
Cc:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org" <linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org>,
        KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org" 
        <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        Jorgen Hansen <jhansen@...are.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/13] vsock: add multi-transports support

On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 12:04:46AM +0000, Dexuan Cui wrote:
> > From: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@...hat.com>
> > Sent: Friday, September 27, 2019 4:27 AM
> >  ...
> > Patch 9 changes the hvs_remote_addr_init(). setting the
> > VMADDR_CID_HOST as remote CID instead of VMADDR_CID_ANY to make
> > the choice of transport to be used work properly.
> > @Dexuan Could this change break anything?
> 
> This patch looks good to me.
> 

Thank you very much for your reviews!

> > @Dexuan please can you test on HyperV that I didn't break anything
> > even without nested VMs?
> 
> I did some quick tests with the 13 patches in a Linux VM (this is not
> a nested VM) on Hyper-V and it looks nothing is broken. :-)
> 

Great :-)

> > I'll try to setup a Windows host where to test the nested VMs
> 
> I suppose you're going to run a Linux VM on a Hyper-V host,
> and the Linux VM itself runs KVM/VmWare so it can create its own child 
> VMs. IMO this is similar to the test "nested KVM ( ..., virtio-transport[L1,L2]"
> you have done.

Yes, I think so. If the Hyper-V transport works well without nested VM,
it should work the same with a nested KVM/VMware.

Thanks,
Stefano