Re: [PATCH V9 00/12] Remus/Libxl: Network buffering support

[Hongyang Yang <yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com>]

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于 2014年04月15日 13:38, Yang Hongyang 写道:
> This patch series adds support for network buffering in the Remus
> codebase in libxl.
>
> Changes in V9:
>    introduce an API to async exec scripts for both device
>    and netbuffer.
>    Use async exec script api to exec scripts.
>
> Changes in V8:
>    Applied some comments(by IanJ).
>    Merge some struct definitions to it's implementation.
>    (2/3/5 in V7 => 3 in V8)
>
> Changes in V7:
>    Applied missing comments(by IanJ).
>    Applied Shriram comments.
>
>    merge netbufering tangled setup/teardown code into one patch.
>    (2/6/8 in V6 => 5 in V7. 9/10 in V6 => 7 in V7)
>
> Changes in V6:
>    Applied Ian Jackson's comments of V5 series.
>    the [PATCH 2/4 V5] is split by small functionalities.
>
>    [PATCH 4/4 V5] --> [PATCH 13/13] netbuffer is default enabled.
>
> Changes in V5:
>
> Merge hotplug script patch (2/5) and hotplug script setup/teardown
> patch (3/5) into a single patch.
>
> Changes in V4:
>
> [1/5] Remove check for libnl command line utils in autoconf checks
>
> [2/5] minor nits
>
> [3/5] define LIBXL_HAVE_REMUS_NETBUF in libxl.h
>
> [4/5] clean ups. Make the usleep in checkpoint callback asynchronous
>
> [5/5] minor nits
>
> Changes in V3:
> [1/5] Fix redundant checks in configure scripts
>        (based on Ian Campbell's suggestions)
>
> [2/5] Introduce locking in the script, during IFB setup.
>        Add xenstore paths used by netbuf scripts
>        to xenstore-paths.markdown
>
> [3/5] Hotplug scripts setup/teardown invocations are now asynchronous
>        following IanJ's feedback.  However, the invocations are still
>        sequential.
>
> [5/5] Allow per-domain specification of netbuffer scripts in xl remus
>        commmand.
>
> And minor nits throughout the series based on feedback from
> the last version
>
> Changes in V2:
> [1/5] Configure script will automatically enable/disable network
>        buffer support depending on the availability of the appropriate
>        libnl3 version. [If libnl3 is unavailable, a warning message will be
>        printed to let the user know that the feature has been disabled.]
>
>        use macros from pkg.m4 instead of pkg-config commands
>        removed redundant checks for libnl3 libraries.
>
> [3,4/5] - Minor nits.
>
> Version 1:
>
> [1/5] Changes to autoconf scripts to check for libnl3. Add linker flags
>        to libxl Makefile.
>
> [2/5] External script to setup/teardown network buffering using libnl3's
>        CLI. This script will be invoked by libxl before starting Remus.
>        The script's main job is to bring up an IFB device with plug qdisc
>        attached to it.  It then re-routes egress traffic from the guest's
>        vif to the IFB device.
>
> [3/5] Libxl code to invoke the external setup script, followed by netlink
>        related setup to obtain a handle on the output buffers attached
>        to each vif.
>
> [4/5] Libxl interaction with network buffer module in the kernel via
>        libnl3 API.
>
> [5/5] xl cmdline switch to explicitly enable network buffering when
>        starting remus.
>
>
>    Few things to note(by shriram):
>
>      a) Based on previous email discussions, the setup/teardown task has
>      been moved to a hotplug style shell script which can be customized as
>      desired, instead of implementing it as C code inside libxl.
>
>      b) Libnl3 is not available on NetBSD. Nor is it available on CentOS
>     (Linux).  So I have made network buffering support an optional feature
>     so that it can be disabled if desired.
>
>     c) NetBSD does not have libnl3. So I have put the setup script under
>     tools/hotplug/Linux folder.
>
> thanks
>
> Shriram Rajagopalan (7):
>    remus: add libnl3 dependency to autoconf scripts
>    remus: introduce a function to check whether network buffering is
>      enabled
>    remus: Remus network buffering core and APIs to setup/teardown
>    remus: implement the API to buffer/release packages
>    libxl: rename remus_failover_cb() to remus_replication_failure_cb()
>    libxl: control network buffering in remus callbacks
>    libxl: network buffering cmdline switch
>
> Yang Hongyang (5):
>    introduce an API to async exec scripts
>    libxl_device: use async exec script api
>    remus: remus device core and APIs to setup/teardown
>    remus: implement the API for checkpoint
>    libxl: use the API to setup/teardown network buffering
>
>   README                                 |   4 +
>   config/Tools.mk.in                     |   3 +
>   docs/man/xl.conf.pod.5                 |   6 +
>   docs/man/xl.pod.1                      |  11 +-
>   docs/misc/xenstore-paths.markdown      |   4 +
>   tools/configure.ac                     |  15 +
>   tools/hotplug/Linux/Makefile           |   1 +
>   tools/hotplug/Linux/remus-netbuf-setup | 183 ++++++++++++
>   tools/libxl/Makefile                   |  11 +
>   tools/libxl/libxl.c                    |  42 ++-
>   tools/libxl/libxl.h                    |  13 +
>   tools/libxl/libxl_device.c             |  80 ++----
>   tools/libxl/libxl_dom.c                |  83 +++++-
>   tools/libxl/libxl_internal.c           |  82 ++++++
>   tools/libxl/libxl_internal.h           |  70 ++++-
>   tools/libxl/libxl_netbuffer.c          | 491 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   tools/libxl/libxl_nonetbuffer.c        |  54 ++++
>   tools/libxl/libxl_remus.c              |  57 ++++
>   tools/libxl/libxl_remus_device.c       | 383 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   tools/libxl/libxl_remus_device.h       |  99 +++++++
>   tools/libxl/libxl_types.idl            |   2 +
>   tools/libxl/xl.c                       |   4 +
>   tools/libxl/xl.h                       |   1 +
>   tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c               |  28 +-
>   tools/libxl/xl_cmdtable.c              |   3 +
>   tools/remus/README                     |   6 +
>   26 files changed, 1650 insertions(+), 86 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 tools/hotplug/Linux/remus-netbuf-setup
>   create mode 100644 tools/libxl/libxl_netbuffer.c
>   create mode 100644 tools/libxl/libxl_nonetbuffer.c
>   create mode 100644 tools/libxl/libxl_remus.c
>   create mode 100644 tools/libxl/libxl_remus_device.c
>   create mode 100644 tools/libxl/libxl_remus_device.h
>


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