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From: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: "Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@gmail.com>,
	QEMU <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"Ilya Maximets" <i.maximets@samsung.com>,
	jonshin@cisco.com, "Tetsuya Mukawa" <mukawa@igel.co.jp>,
	"Xie, Huawei" <huawei.xie@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/18] vhost-user: add shutdown support
Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 10:50:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160502175058.GN5641@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160502143051-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com>

On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 03:04:30PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 01:29:18PM +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > 1. Graceful disconnect
> > > - One should be able to do vmstop, disconnect, connect then vm start
> > >   This looks like a nice intermediate step.
> > > - Why would we always assume it's always remote initiating the disconnect?
> > >   Monitor commands for disconnecting seem called for.
> > 
> > Those two solutions involve VM management. This looks more complex to
> > communicate/synchronize vhost-user backend & vm management & qemu. The
> > use case I cover is request from the backend to shutdown,
> 
> Right, but flushing buffers + closing the socket looks like
> a cleaner interface than a ton of messages going back and forth.

I'd agree with Michael on that. It needs more cares when dealing with
two stream buffers: you can't quit backend soon after the shutdown
request, instead, you have to wait for the ACK from QEMU. Making request
from QEMU avoids that.

	--yliu

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-02 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-01 11:16 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/18] RFCv2: vhost-user: shutdown and reconnection marcandre.lureau
2016-04-01 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/18] tests: append i386 tests marcandre.lureau
2016-04-01 20:30   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/18 for-2.6] " Eric Blake
2016-04-01 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/18] char: lower reconnect error to trace event marcandre.lureau
2016-04-01 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/18] char: use a trace for when the char is waiting marcandre.lureau
2016-04-01 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/18] char: add wait support for reconnect marcandre.lureau
2016-04-28  4:33   ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-04-01 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/18] vhost-user: check reconnect comes with wait marcandre.lureau
2016-04-01 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/18] vhost-user: add ability to know vhost-user backend disconnection marcandre.lureau
2016-04-01 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/18] vhost: add vhost_dev stop callback marcandre.lureau
2016-04-01 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/18] vhost-user: add vhost_user to hold the chr marcandre.lureau
2016-04-01 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/18] qemu-char: add qemu_chr_disconnect to close a fd accepted by listen fd marcandre.lureau
2016-04-01 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/18] vhost-user: add slave-fd support marcandre.lureau
2016-04-01 20:33   ` Eric Blake
2016-04-01 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/18] vhost-user: add shutdown support marcandre.lureau
2016-04-13  2:49   ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-04-13  9:51     ` Marc-André Lureau
2016-04-13 17:32       ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-04-13 21:43         ` Marc-André Lureau
2016-04-13 21:57           ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-04-28  5:23   ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-04-29 10:40     ` Marc-André Lureau
2016-04-29 17:48       ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-05-01 11:37         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-05-01 21:04           ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-05-02 10:45             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-05-02 11:29               ` Marc-André Lureau
2016-05-02 12:04                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-05-02 17:50                   ` Yuanhan Liu [this message]
2016-05-04 13:16                   ` Marc-André Lureau
2016-05-04 19:13                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-05-05  3:44                       ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-05-05 13:42                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-05-02 17:37               ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-04-01 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/18] vhost-user: disconnect on start failure marcandre.lureau
2016-04-01 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 13/18] vhost-net: do not crash if backend is not present marcandre.lureau
2016-04-01 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/18] vhost-net: save & restore vhost-user acked features marcandre.lureau
2016-04-01 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 15/18] vhost-net: save & restore vring enable state marcandre.lureau
2016-04-01 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 16/18] test: vubr check " marcandre.lureau
2016-04-01 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 17/18] test: start vhost-user reconnect test marcandre.lureau
2016-04-01 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 18/18] test: add shutdown support vubr test marcandre.lureau
2016-04-13  2:52   ` Yuanhan Liu

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