From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758550Ab0EEUgg (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2010 16:36:36 -0400 Received: from smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com ([65.115.85.73]:53484 "EHLO smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758124Ab0EEUge (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2010 16:36:34 -0400 From: Dmitry Torokhov Organization: VMware, Inc. To: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [Pv-drivers] RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for vmxnet3 Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 13:36:31 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.2 (Linux/2.6.34-rc5; KDE/4.4.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: "virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org" , Pankaj Thakkar , Christoph Hellwig , "pv-drivers@vmware.com" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" References: <20100504230225.GP8323@vmware.com> <201005052209.48465.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <201005052209.48465.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201005051336.32712.dtor@vmware.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 05 May 2010 01:09:48 pm Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > If you have any interesting in developing this further, do: > > > > > > (1) move the limited VF drivers directly into the kernel tree, > > > talk to them through a normal ops vector > > > > [PT] This assumes that all the VF drivers would always be available. > > Also we have to support windows and our current design supports it > > nicely in an OS agnostic manner. > > Your approach assumes that the plugin is always available, which has > exactly the same implications. Since plugin[s] are carried by the host they are indeed always available. -- Dmitry