netdev - Re: [TEST] VirtioFS instead of 9p

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Message-ID: <07677234-6440-407e-9b01-55f86028af66@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 18:02:19 +0100
From: Matthieu Baerts <matttbe@...nel.org>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, netdev-driver-reviewers@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [TEST] VirtioFS instead of 9p

On 26/03/2024 15:23, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 11:27:17 +0100 Matthieu Baerts wrote:
>>> "All you need is to install" undersells it a little :)
>>>
>>> It's not packaged for silly OS^w^w AWS Linux.  
>>
>> Thank you for having tried! That's a shame "virtiofsd" is not packaged!
>>
>>> And the Rust that comes with it doesn't seem to be able to build it :(  
>> Did you try by installing Rust (rustc, cargo) via rustup [1]? It is even
>> possible to get the offline installer if it is easier [2]. With rustup,
>> you can easily install newer versions of the Rust toolchain.
>>
>> [1] https://www.rust-lang.org/learn/get-started
>> [2] https://forge.rust-lang.org/infra/other-installation-methods.html
> 
> I know, I know, but there's only so many minutes ;)

I like your idea from the bi-weekly meeting of using Docker (or similar)
for that. It looks like virtiofsd is in Debian testing (not in stable
yet) and in Ubuntu 23.10 (what we are using for the MPTCP CI, from a
Docker image).

- https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp-upstream-virtme-docker
-
https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/blob/export/.github/workflows/tests.yml#L78

>> Do you need a hand to update the wiki page?
> 
> Yes please! I believe it's a repo somewhere, but not sure if it's easy
> to send PRs against it. If PRs are not trivial feel free to edit the
> wiki directly.

There is a repo [1], but we cannot send PRs [2] :-/

So I just did a few modifications [3] (thanks for letting me doing
that), feel free to review :)

[1] https://github.com/linux-netdev/nipa.wiki.git
[2] https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/50163
[3]
https://github.com/linux-netdev/nipa/wiki/How-to-run-netdev-selftests-CI-style/_history

Cheers,
Matt
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