Re: [RFC] Discuss about an new idea "Vsock over Virtio-net"

Jason Wang
2018-11-30T12:55:17Z

On 2018/11/30 下午8:52, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>> If you want to compare it with
>>> something that would be TCP or QUIC. The fundamental difference between
>>> virtio-vsock and e.g. TCP is that TCP operates in a packet loss environment.
>>> So they are using timers for reliability, and receiver is always free to
>>> discard any unacked data.
>> Virtio-net knows nothing above L2, so they are totally transparent to device
>> itself. I still don't get why not using virtio-net instead.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
> Is your question why is virtio-vsock used instead of TCP on top of IP
> on top of virtio-net?
>
>

No, my question is why not do vsock through virtio-net.

Thanks