From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: minyard@acm.org
Cc: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>,
mst@redhat.com, hwd@huawei.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
bcketchum@gmail.com, afaerber@suse.de
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] chardev: Add reconnecting to client sockets
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 23:04:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140919220419.GA27710@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1411163937-19891-1-git-send-email-minyard@acm.org>
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 04:58:57PM -0500, minyard@acm.org wrote:
> From: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
>
> Adds a "recon" option to socket backends that gives a reconnect
> timeout. This only applies to client sockets. If the other end
> of a socket closes the connection, qemu will attempt to reconnect
> after the given number of seconds.
We're enthusiastic about this - we're using a virtio rng via egd, and
restarting our entropy distributor currently kills hwrng in the guest
because the socket has gone away.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-19 22:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-19 21:58 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] chardev: Add reconnecting to client sockets minyard
2014-09-19 22:04 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2014-09-19 22:33 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-19 23:27 ` Eric Blake
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