Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 9/9] Introduce VLANClientState::cleanup()

[Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>]

> >> 1) Network backend is created.  As part of the configuration of the
> >> backend, a unique device identifier is associated with it.
> >> 2) A PCI device is created.
> >>   a) The PCI device creates one or more Network frontends.  Each
> >> frontend carries the device identifier and perhaps something like a port
> >> id. b) When the PCI device is destroyed, it destroys any frontends it
> >> owns.
> >
> > This sounds about right, though I'm not entirely sure what you mean
> > by "network backend". backend ~= vlan in the current implementation?
>
> Roughly, VLANClientState would be the backend.  There are too many
> details about VLAN though in VLANClientState today beyond the name.
>
> Ideally, the network backend would just consistent of an interface to
> submit packets, register buffers to receive packets, an interface to
> negotiate/enable features (GSO, checksum offload), and a means to get
> configuration information (MAC address).


Hmm, in that case I don't understand your distinction between frontend and 
backend.

> Today, you're given a VLAN and then you create a VLANClient from the
> VLAN.  That's too much implementation detail to live in the devices IMHO.

Right.

Paul