From: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, davem@davemloft.net,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
devel@linuxdriverproject.org, olaf@aepfle.de, apw@canonical.com,
jasowang@redhat.com, kys@microsoft.com, haiyangz@microsoft.com
Subject: [PATCH v7 net-next 0/1] introduce Hyper-V VM Sockets(hv_sock)
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 05:50:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1460033400-28670-1-git-send-email-decui@microsoft.com> (raw)
Hyper-V Sockets (hv_sock) supplies a byte-stream based communication
mechanism between the host and the guest. It's somewhat like TCP over
VMBus, but the transportation layer (VMBus) is much simpler than IP.
With Hyper-V Sockets, applications between the host and the guest can talk
to each other directly by the traditional BSD-style socket APIs.
Hyper-V Sockets is only available on new Windows hosts, like Windows Server
2016. More info is in this article "Make your own integration services":
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyperv_on_windows/develop/make_mgmt_service
The patch implements the necessary support in the guest side by
introducing a new socket address family AF_HYPERV.
Note: the VMBus driver side's supporting patches have been in the mainline
tree.
I know the kernel has already had a VM Sockets driver (AF_VSOCK) based
on VMware VMCI (net/vmw_vsock/, drivers/misc/vmw_vmci), and KVM is
proposing AF_VSOCK of virtio version:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=145952064004765&w=2
However, though Hyper-V Sockets may seem conceptually similar to
AF_VOSCK, there are differences in the transportation layer, and IMO these
make the direct code reusing impractical:
1. In AF_VSOCK, the endpoint type is: <u32 ContextID, u32 Port>, but in
AF_HYPERV, the endpoint type is: <GUID VM_ID, GUID ServiceID>. Here GUID
is 128-bit.
2. AF_VSOCK supports SOCK_DGRAM, while AF_HYPERV doesn't.
3. AF_VSOCK supports some special sock opts, like SO_VM_SOCKETS_BUFFER_SIZE,
SO_VM_SOCKETS_BUFFER_MIN/MAX_SIZE and SO_VM_SOCKETS_CONNECT_TIMEOUT.
These are meaningless to AF_HYPERV.
4. Some AF_VSOCK's VMCI transportation ops are meanless to AF_HYPERV/VMBus,
like .notify_recv_init
.notify_recv_pre_block
.notify_recv_pre_dequeue
.notify_recv_post_dequeue
.notify_send_init
.notify_send_pre_block
.notify_send_pre_enqueue
.notify_send_post_enqueue
etc.
So I think we'd better introduce a new address family: AF_HYPERV.
Please review the patch.
Looking forward to your comments!
Changes since v1:
- updated "[PATCH 6/7] hvsock: introduce Hyper-V VM Sockets feature"
- added __init and __exit for the module init/exit functions
- net/hv_sock/Kconfig: "default m" -> "default m if HYPERV"
- MODULE_LICENSE: "Dual MIT/GPL" -> "Dual BSD/GPL"
Changes since v2:
- fixed various coding issue pointed out by David Miller
- fixed indentation issues
- removed pr_debug in net/hv_sock/af_hvsock.c
- used reverse-Chrismas-tree style for local variables.
- EXPORT_SYMBOL -> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
Changes since v3:
- fixed a few coding issue pointed by Vitaly Kuznetsov and Dan Carpenter
- fixed the ret value in vmbus_recvpacket_hvsock on error
- fixed the style of multi-line comment: vmbus_get_hvsock_rw_status()
Changes since v4 (https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/28/404):
- addressed all the comments about V4.
- treat the hvsock offers/channels as special VMBus devices
- add a mechanism to pass hvsock events to the hvsock driver
- fixed some corner cases with proper locking when a connection is closed
- rebased to the latest Greg's tree
Changes since v5 (https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/24/103):
- addressed the coding style issues (Vitaly Kuznetsov & David Miller, thanks!)
- used a better coding for the per-channel rescind callback (Thank Vitaly!)
- avoided the introduction of new VMBUS driver APIs vmbus_sendpacket_hvsock()
and vmbus_recvpacket_hvsock() and used vmbus_sendpacket()/vmbus_recvpacket()
in the higher level (i.e., the vmsock driver). Thank Vitaly!
Changes since v6 (http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1601.3/01813.html)
- only a few minor changes of coding style and comments
Dexuan Cui (1):
hv_sock: introduce Hyper-V Sockets
MAINTAINERS | 2 +
include/linux/hyperv.h | 16 +
include/linux/socket.h | 5 +-
include/net/af_hvsock.h | 51 ++
include/uapi/linux/hyperv.h | 16 +
net/Kconfig | 1 +
net/Makefile | 1 +
net/hv_sock/Kconfig | 10 +
net/hv_sock/Makefile | 3 +
net/hv_sock/af_hvsock.c | 1481 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
10 files changed, 1584 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 include/net/af_hvsock.h
create mode 100644 net/hv_sock/Kconfig
create mode 100644 net/hv_sock/Makefile
create mode 100644 net/hv_sock/af_hvsock.c
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