From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Maxime Coquelin Subject: Re: [PATCH v7] net/virtio-user: add support for server mode Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:55:13 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20180406001855.54062-1-zhiyong.yang@intel.com> <20180406092554.9842-1-zhiyong.yang@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Bie, Tiwei" , "Wang, Zhihong" , "Wang, Dong1" , "thomas@monjalon.net" To: "Tan, Jianfeng" , "Yang, Zhiyong" , "dev@dpdk.org" Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx3-rdu2.redhat.com [66.187.233.73]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E11871B745 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:55:19 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On 04/08/2018 02:36 AM, Tan, Jianfeng wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Yang, Zhiyong >> Sent: Friday, April 6, 2018 5:26 PM >> To:dev@dpdk.org >> Cc: Yang, Zhiyong;maxime.coquelin@redhat.com; Tan, Jianfeng; Bie, Tiwei; >> Wang, Zhihong; Wang, Dong1;thomas@monjalon.net >> Subject: [PATCH v7] net/virtio-user: add support for server mode >> >> In a container environment if the vhost-user backend restarts, there's >> no way for it to reconnect to virtio-user. To address this, support for >> server mode is added. In this mode the socket file is created by virtio- >> user, which the backend then connects to. This means that if the backend >> restarts, it can reconnect to virtio-user and continue communications. >> >> With current implementation, LSC is enabled at virtio-user side to >> support to accept the coming connection. >> >> Server mode virtio-user only supports to work with vhost-user. >> >> Release note is updated in this patch. >> >> Signed-off-by: Zhiyong Yang > Reviewed-by: Jianfeng Tan Applied to dpdk-next-virtio/master. Thanks, Maxime