From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32890) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUd5i-0008IB-Re for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:58:23 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUd5e-000350-P3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:58:22 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:59372) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUd5e-00034k-JH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:58:18 -0400 From: Markus Armbruster References: <1440583182-5828-1-git-send-email-yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 17:58:15 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1440583182-5828-1-git-send-email-yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com> (Yang Hongyang's message of "Wed, 26 Aug 2015 17:59:31 +0800") Message-ID: <87si76jb3c.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/11] Add a netfilter object and netbuffer filter List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Yang Hongyang Cc: thuth@redhat.com, zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com, lizhijian@cn.fujitsu.com, jasowang@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, mrhines@linux.vnet.ibm.com, stefanha@redhat.com Yang Hongyang writes: > This patch add a new object netfilter, capture all network packets. > Also implement a netbuffer based on this object. > the "buffer" netfilter could be used by VM FT solutions like > MicroCheckpointing, to buffer/release packets. Or to simulate > packet delay. I like the idea of having a generic netfilter infrastructure. The external interfaces need a bit more work. I'm sure you can get them right with a little help. Thanks for tackling this!