[virtio-comment] Re: [PATCH v2] virtio-vsock: add VIRTIO_VSOCK_F_NO_IMPLIED_STREAM feature bit

[Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Jul 18 2022, Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com> wrote:

> Initially virtio-vsock only supported the stream type, which is why
> there was no feature. Later we added the seqpacket type and in the future
> we may have other types (e.g. datagram).
>
> seqpacket is an extension of stream, so it might be implied that if
> seqpacket is supported, stream is too, but this might not be true for
> other types.
>
> As we discussed here [1] should be better to add a new
> VIRTIO_VSOCK_F_NO_IMPLIED_STREAM feature bit to avoid this implication.
>
> Let's also add normative sections to better define the behavior when
> VIRTIO_VSOCK_F_NO_IMPLIED_STREAM is negotiated or not.
>
> [1] http://markmail.org/message/2s3qd74drgjxkvte
>
> Suggested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
> ---
> v2:
> - rewrote better normative statements [Cornelia]
> - updated conformance.tex with the new sections [Cornelia]
>
> v1: https://markmail.org/message/ybtl4trifrhjnkfe
> ---
>  conformance.tex  |  2 ++
>  virtio-vsock.tex | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>


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