From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: ciara.loftus-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
Cc: dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org,
Anthony Fee
<anthonyx.fee-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] vhost: add interface name to virtio-net struct
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:02:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1522038.HipDzNB9IE@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1418926027-19794-1-git-send-email-ciara.loftus-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-12-18 18:07, ciara.loftus-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org:
> This patch fixes the issue whereby when using userspace vhost ports
> in the context of vSwitching, the name provided to the hypervisor/QEMU
> of the vhost tap device needs to be exposed in the library, in order
> for the vSwitch to be able to direct packets to the correct device.
> This patch introduces an 'ifname' member to the virtio-net structure
> which is populated with the tap device name when QEMU is brought up
> with a vhost device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
> Signed-off-by: Anthony Fee <anthonyx.fee-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
> Acked-by: Huawei Xie <huawei.xie-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Seems important to make this new library working in a common scenario.
Applied
Thanks
--
Thomas
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2014-12-18 18:07 [PATCH v2] vhost: add interface name to virtio-net struct ciara.loftus-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w
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2014-12-18 22:02 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2014-12-19 15:39 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
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2014-12-19 16:02 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-01-25 4:41 ` Linhaifeng
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2015-01-25 8:34 ` Xie, Huawei
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