From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] AF_VMCHANNEL address family for guest<->host communication.
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:25:32 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081216212532.GA15360@ioremap.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081216065727.GD13794@redhat.com>
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 08:57:27AM +0200, Gleb Natapov (gleb@redhat.com) wrote:
> > Another approach is to implement that virtio backend with netlink based
> > userspace interface (like using connector or genetlink). This does not
> > differ too much from what you have with special socket family, but at
> > least it does not duplicate existing functionality of
> > userspace-kernelspace communications.
> >
> I implemented vmchannel using connector initially (the downside is that
> message can be dropped). Is this more expectable for upstream? The
> implementation was 300 lines of code.
Hard to tell, it depends on implementation. But if things are good, I
have no objections as connector maintainer :)
Messages in connector in particular and netlink in general are only
dropped, when receiving buffer is full (or when there is no memory), you
can tune buffer size to match virtual queue size or vice versa.
--
Evgeniy Polyakov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-16 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-14 11:50 [PATCH] AF_VMCHANNEL address family for guest<->host communication Gleb Natapov
2008-12-14 12:23 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-14 12:46 ` Gleb Natapov
2008-12-15 6:44 ` David Miller
2008-12-15 7:48 ` Gleb Natapov
2008-12-15 8:27 ` David Miller
2008-12-15 15:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-15 17:45 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-12-15 18:26 ` Itamar Heim
2008-12-15 18:45 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-15 22:52 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-12-15 23:08 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-15 23:44 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-12-15 23:52 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-16 0:01 ` Dor Laor
2008-12-15 19:43 ` David Miller
2008-12-15 20:44 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-15 22:29 ` David Miller
2008-12-15 23:01 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-15 23:10 ` David Miller
2008-12-15 23:17 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-16 2:55 ` Herbert Xu
2008-12-15 23:13 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-12-15 23:45 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-16 6:57 ` Gleb Natapov
2008-12-16 21:25 ` Evgeniy Polyakov [this message]
2008-12-16 23:20 ` Dor Laor
2008-12-17 14:31 ` Gleb Natapov
2008-12-18 12:30 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
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