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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Cc: avi@redhat.com, markmc@redhat.com,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	ogerlitz@voltaire.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	qemu-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH qemu-kvm] Add raw(af_packet) network backend to qemu
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:47:36 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B5F54E8.3080507@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1264538423.24933.144.camel@w-sridhar.beaverton.ibm.com>

On 01/26/2010 02:40 PM, Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
> This patch adds raw socket backend to qemu and is based on Or Gerlitz's
> patch re-factored and ported to the latest qemu-kvm git tree.
> It also includes support for vnet_hdr option that enables gso/checksum
> offload with raw backend. You can find the linux kernel patch to support
> this feature here.
>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/150308
>
> Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala<sri@us.ibm.com>
>    

See the previous discussion about the raw backend from Or's original 
patch.  There's no obvious reason why we should have this in addition to 
a tun/tap backend.

The only use-case I know of is macvlan but macvtap addresses this 
functionality while not introduce the rather nasty security problems 
associated with a raw backend.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-26 20:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-26 20:40 [PATCH qemu-kvm] Add raw(af_packet) network backend to qemu Sridhar Samudrala
2010-01-26 20:47 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2010-01-26 20:50   ` Anthony Liguori
2010-01-26 23:19     ` Sridhar Samudrala
2010-01-27  9:24     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-27  9:34       ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-01-27  9:44         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-27 14:03           ` Anthony Liguori
2010-01-27 21:39             ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-01-27 22:56               ` Sridhar Samudrala
2010-01-28  6:06                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-01-28 16:53                   ` Jens Osterkamp
2010-01-28 11:22                 ` Or Gerlitz
2010-01-29 20:52                 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2010-01-27 14:07       ` Anthony Liguori
2010-01-27 16:59         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-27 17:07           ` Anthony Liguori
2010-01-27 17:25             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-27 17:36               ` Anthony Liguori
2010-01-27 17:54                 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2010-01-27 18:02                   ` Anthony Liguori
2010-01-27 18:03                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-27 19:54                       ` Anthony Liguori
2010-01-28  8:12                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-01-28 13:56                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-28 14:13                             ` Anthony Liguori
2010-01-28 14:39                               ` Anthony Liguori
2010-01-28 14:52                               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-28 15:05                                 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-01-28 16:37                                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-28 17:58                                     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-01-28 18:04                                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-28 19:57                                         ` Anthony Liguori
2010-01-29 11:26                                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-28 20:29                                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-02-01 15:47                         ` Or Gerlitz
2010-01-27 18:12                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-26 23:15   ` Sridhar Samudrala
2010-01-27  0:06     ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2010-01-27  6:52       ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-01-27 14:14         ` Anthony Liguori

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