From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@voltaire.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] tun: export underlying socket
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:11:51 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090914091151.GE14030@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AADFC0A.30305@voltaire.com>
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:17:14AM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:07:25AM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:
>>
>>> vhost injects packets into physical device, what is the use case of vhost injecting packets into the host network stack?
>>>
>> The case where the user requires bridging, typically.
>>
> So you want to support a scheme where someone wants to attach vhost to a
> bridge? why not just telling these users to just set their vhost on top
> of veth couple, such that one veth device is added to a bridge as
> interface and a vhost instance is tied to the other veth device?
>
>
> Or.
That's already possible. However virtualization users are familiar with
configuring the tun device, and tun has grown virtualization-specific
extensions, so I don't see a reason not to accomodate these uses.
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-14 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-10 12:59 [PATCH RFC] tun: export underlying socket Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-10 13:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-09-10 13:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-11 4:17 ` Paul Moore
2009-09-11 4:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-11 5:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-11 6:10 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-09-11 9:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-14 8:01 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-09-14 8:07 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-09-14 8:09 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-14 8:17 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-09-14 9:11 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2009-09-14 9:43 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-09-14 10:10 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-14 14:06 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-09-14 15:03 ` Herbert Xu
2009-09-15 13:02 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-09-15 13:31 ` Herbert Xu
2009-09-14 15:40 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-15 13:11 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-09-15 13:18 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-11-02 17:20 ` [PATCHv2] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-11-03 15:10 ` Herbert Xu
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