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From: acking@vmware.com
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: pv-drivers@vmware.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	acking@vmware.com, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: [PATCH 0/1] VM Sockets for Linux upstreaming
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:37:49 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1359135470-30677-1-git-send-email-acking@vmware.com> (raw)

From: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>

** Introduce VM Sockets ***

In an effort to improve the out-of-the-box experience with Linux kernels for
VMware users, VMware is working on readying the VM Sockets (VSOCK, formerly
VMCI Sockets) (vmw_vsock) kernel module for inclusion in the Linux kernel. The
purpose of this post is to acquire feedback on the vmw_vsock kernel module.

Unlike previous submissions, where the new socket family was entirely reliant
on VMware's VMCI PCI device (and thus VMware's hypervisor), VM Sockets is now
_mostly_ separated out into two parts:

o Core socket code, which is transport-neutral and invokes transport
  callbacks to communicate with the hypervisor.
o A VMCI transport, which communicates over VMCI with the VMware hypervisor.

This should provide a path to introducing additional transports, for example
virtio, with the ultimate goal being to make this new socket family
hypervisor-neutral.

Andy King (1):
  VSOCK: Introduce VM Sockets

 include/linux/socket.h                       |    4 +-
 include/uapi/linux/vm_sockets.h              |  169 +++
 net/Kconfig                                  |    1 +
 net/Makefile                                 |    1 +
 net/vmw_vsock/Kconfig                        |   14 +
 net/vmw_vsock/Makefile                       |    4 +
 net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c                     | 1983 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.h                     |  256 ++++
 net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport.c               | 1863 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport.h               |   90 ++
 net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport_notify.c        |  677 +++++++++
 net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport_notify.h        |  126 ++
 net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport_notify_qstate.c |  411 ++++++
 net/vmw_vsock/vsock_addr.c                   |  118 ++
 net/vmw_vsock/vsock_addr.h                   |   36 +
 net/vmw_vsock/vsock_version.h                |   22 +
 16 files changed, 5774 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/vm_sockets.h
 create mode 100644 net/vmw_vsock/Kconfig
 create mode 100644 net/vmw_vsock/Makefile
 create mode 100644 net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
 create mode 100644 net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.h
 create mode 100644 net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport.c
 create mode 100644 net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport.h
 create mode 100644 net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport_notify.c
 create mode 100644 net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport_notify.h
 create mode 100644 net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport_notify_qstate.c
 create mode 100644 net/vmw_vsock/vsock_addr.c
 create mode 100644 net/vmw_vsock/vsock_addr.h
 create mode 100644 net/vmw_vsock/vsock_version.h

-- 
1.7.4.1

             reply	other threads:[~2013-01-25 17:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-25 17:37 acking [this message]
2013-01-25 17:37 ` [PATCH 1/1] VSOCK: Introduce VM Sockets acking
2013-01-25 23:59   ` Neil Horman
2013-01-26  0:15     ` [Pv-drivers] " Dmitry Torokhov
2013-01-26  0:22       ` Greg KH
2013-01-26 18:41       ` Neil Horman
2013-01-28 12:25   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2013-01-31 22:06     ` Andy King
2013-02-01  8:12       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2013-02-04 23:41         ` Andy King
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-02-04 23:26 [PATCH 0/1] VM Sockets for Linux upstreaming Andy King
2013-02-05 16:41 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2013-02-05 17:02   ` Andy King
2013-02-07  0:23 Andy King
2013-02-11  1:10 ` David Miller

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