Re: [Qemu-devel] Unified Datagram Socket Transport

[Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>]

On 2017年07月21日 03:12, anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This addresses comments so far except Eric's suggestion to use
> InetSocketAddressBase. If I understand correctly its intended use,
> it will not be of help for protocols which have no port (raw
> sockets - GRE, L2TPv3, etc).
>
> It also includes a port of the original socket.c transport to
> the new UDST backend. The relevant code is ifdef-ed so there
> should be no effect on other systems.

This looks sub-optimal. If you want to do this, I would rather suggest 
you just extend the socket dgram backend like what udst did now.

>
> I think that this is would be the appropriate place to stop in this
> iteration. I would prefer to have this polished, before I start
> looking at sendmmsg and bulk send or some of the more unpleasant
> encapsulations like geneve.

Pay attention we're softfreeze now. So the feature is for 2.11, if it 
looks good, I can only queue it for 2.11.

Btw, looks like not all comments of v1 were addressed.

Thanks

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