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* [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/16] Add a -netdev option
@ 2009-10-08 18:58 Mark McLoughlin
  2009-10-08 18:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/16] slirp: fix !CONFIG_SLIRP compilation Mark McLoughlin
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  0 siblings, 19 replies; 29+ messages in thread
From: Mark McLoughlin @ 2009-10-08 18:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel

Hi,
        Here's a series of patches which gets the ball rolling on adding
a -netdev option.

        The idea is to de-emphasise the vlan support, and instead make
a nic directly connected to a host backend the default and recommended
configuration. We want this because it is only with this configuration
that we feasibly add optimizations like GSO support or vhost-net.

        Where we're going is that rather '-net user -net nic' being the
default, it would instead be:

  -netdev user,id=default_slirp -device e1000,netdev=default_slirp

        This patch series has a lot of this done, but there's still a
significant TODO list including:

  * qdev-ify the NICs so that we can use -device rather than '-net nic'
    which Gerd has started looking at

  * add hotplug equivalent to netdev - we should probably add a 'nic='
    argument to -netdev for this to allow changing the backend without
    changing the frontend

  * 'info network' should list netdevs

  * merging in GSO support from qemu-kvm.git, substantially cleaned up

  * VLAN support should be implemented as just another network client,
    but one which is connected to multiple backends and frontends

  * re-naming e.g. VLANClientState to NetClient

  * killing off NICInfo

  * ...

        I've given this series significant testing including building
with all targets (really!), mingw, --disable-slirp, --enable-vde,
without TUNSETSNDBUF and running with various nic models, backends,
with both -net and -netdev, some different guests, hotplug, ... No
doubt I've still managed to screw something up.

Cheers,
Mark.

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2009-10-08 18:58 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/16] Add a -netdev option Mark McLoughlin
2009-10-08 18:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/16] slirp: fix !CONFIG_SLIRP compilation Mark McLoughlin
2009-10-08 18:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/16] hotplug: safely iterate bus's sibling list while removing a device Mark McLoughlin
2009-10-12 13:16   ` [Qemu-devel] " Gerd Hoffmann
2009-10-12 13:22     ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-10-08 18:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/16] net: pass monitor handle to client init functions Mark McLoughlin
2009-10-08 18:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/16] net: remove unused qemu_handler_true() Mark McLoughlin
2009-10-08 18:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/16] net: handle id= parameter for -net Mark McLoughlin
2009-10-08 18:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/16] net: remove id field from NICInfo Mark McLoughlin
2009-10-08 18:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/16] net: use qtailq for vlan and client lists Mark McLoughlin
2009-10-08 18:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/16] net: allow clients not associated with a vlan Mark McLoughlin
2009-10-08 18:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/16] net: add QemuOptsList arg to net_client_parse() Mark McLoughlin
2009-10-08 18:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/16] net: add -netdev option Mark McLoughlin
2009-10-08 18:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/16] net: handle -netdevice options Mark McLoughlin
2009-10-08 18:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/16] net: maintain a list of vlan-less clients Mark McLoughlin
2009-10-08 18:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 13/16] net: add -net nic,netdev= option Mark McLoughlin
2009-10-08 18:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/16] net: allow NICs to be connected to netdevs Mark McLoughlin
2009-10-08 18:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 15/16] net: refactor packet queueing code Mark McLoughlin
2009-10-08 18:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 16/16] net: add queue for peer-to-peer packet forwarding Mark McLoughlin
2009-10-08 20:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/16] Add a -netdev option Stefan Weil
2009-10-08 21:37   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-09  6:23     ` Edgar E. Iglesias
2009-10-09 17:33       ` Stefan Weil
2009-10-09  7:09   ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-10-09  8:41     ` Edgar E. Iglesias
2009-10-09 15:26 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-10 19:26   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-11-10 15:44 ` Paul Brook
2009-11-10 15:45   ` Mark McLoughlin

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