From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] virtio_net: Extend virtio to use VF datapath when available Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 22:10:33 +0200 Message-ID: <20180302220932-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <1519934923-39372-1-git-send-email-sridhar.samudrala@intel.com> <1519934923-39372-3-git-send-email-sridhar.samudrala@intel.com> <20180302083605.GD2099@nanopsycho> <20180302213920-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <04e6981c-bb8d-0af9-5fe3-b9a7f7def3f5@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Alexander Duyck , Jiri Pirko , Stephen Hemminger , David Miller , Netdev , virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, "Brandeburg, Jesse" , "Duyck, Alexander H" , Jakub Kicinski To: "Samudrala, Sridhar" Return-path: Sender: List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <04e6981c-bb8d-0af9-5fe3-b9a7f7def3f5@intel.com> List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 11:52:27AM -0800, Samudrala, Sridhar wrote: > > > On 3/2/2018 11:41 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 07:26:25AM -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote: > > > The design limits things to a 1:1 relationship since we just have the > > > child and backup pointers, but I don't think I am seeing exception > > > handling to prevent us from overwriting the child pointers so there > > > may be a leak there. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > - Alex > > In fact maintaining a list in that case would be nicer, and > > just use an arbitrary one. > > E.g. one can see how a user wanting to swap device 1 for device 2 > > might first add device 2 with same MAC then drop device 1. > > It should be possible to swap VF1 with VF2 by > 1.- enabling virtio link > 2.- unplugging VF1 > 3.- plugging VF2 > 4.- disabling virtio link > True, but it isn't hard to avoid breakage if user swapped steps 2 and 3. No need to make it more fragile that it has to be. -- MST