From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Bobby Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@gmail.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>, Cong Wang <cong.wang@bytedance.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>,
Bobby Eshleman <bobby.eshleman@bytedance.com>,
Jiang Wang <jiang.wang@bytedance.com>,
Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>,
Bobby Eshleman <bobby.eshleman@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] virtio/vsock: introduce dgrams, sk_buff, and qdisc
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2022 13:02:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220817130044-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YvtmYpMieMFb80qR@bullseye>
On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 09:42:51AM +0000, Bobby Eshleman wrote:
> > The basic question to answer then is this: with a net device qdisc
> > etc in the picture, how is this different from virtio net then?
> > Why do you still want to use vsock?
> >
>
> When using virtio-net, users looking for inter-VM communication are
> required to setup bridges, TAPs, allocate IP addresses or setup DNS,
> etc... and then finally when you have a network, you can open a socket
> on an IP address and port. This is the configuration that vsock avoids.
> For vsock, we just need a CID and a port, but no network configuration.
Surely when you mention DNS you are going overboard? vsock doesn't
remove the need for DNS as much as it does not support it.
--
MST
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <cover.1660362668.git.bobby.eshleman@bytedance.com>
2022-08-15 20:39 ` [PATCH 0/6] virtio/vsock: introduce dgrams, sk_buff, and qdisc Michael S. Tsirkin
[not found] ` <d81818b868216c774613dd03641fcfe63cc55a45.1660362668.git.bobby.eshleman@bytedance.com>
2022-08-15 20:01 ` [PATCH 2/6] vsock: return errors other than -ENOMEM to socket kernel test robot
2022-08-15 23:13 ` kernel test robot
2022-08-16 2:16 ` kernel test robot
2022-09-26 13:21 ` Stefano Garzarella
2022-08-16 7:00 ` [PATCH 0/6] virtio/vsock: introduce dgrams, sk_buff, and qdisc Stefano Garzarella
2022-08-17 6:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
[not found] ` <YvtmYpMieMFb80qR@bullseye>
2022-08-17 17:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
[not found] ` <Yvt6nxUYMfDrLd/A@bullseye>
2022-08-17 17:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-08-18 4:28 ` Jason Wang
2022-09-06 9:00 ` Stefano Garzarella
[not found] ` <5a93c5aad99d79f028d349cb7e3c128c65d5d7e2.1660362668.git.bobby.eshleman@bytedance.com>
2022-08-16 16:38 ` [PATCH 3/6] vsock: add netdev to vhost/virtio vsock Michael S. Tsirkin
[not found] ` <20220816110717.5422e976@kernel.org>
[not found] ` <YvtAktdB09tM0Ykr@bullseye>
[not found] ` <20220816160755.7eb11d2e@kernel.org>
[not found] ` <YvtVN195TS1xpEN7@bullseye>
[not found] ` <20220816181528.5128bc06@kernel.org>
[not found] ` <Yvt2f5i5R9NNNYUL@bullseye>
2022-08-17 17:20 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-08-18 4:34 ` Jason Wang
2022-09-06 10:58 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-09-06 13:26 ` [PATCH 0/6] virtio/vsock: introduce dgrams, sk_buff, and qdisc Stefan Hajnoczi
[not found] ` <Yv5PFz1YrSk8jxzY@bullseye>
2022-09-08 8:30 ` Stefano Garzarella
2022-09-08 14:36 ` Call to discuss vsock netdev/sk_buff [was Re: [PATCH 0/6] virtio/vsock: introduce dgrams, sk_buff, and qdisc] Stefano Garzarella
[not found] ` <YxuCVfFcRdWHeeh8@bullseye>
2022-09-12 18:12 ` Stefano Garzarella
[not found] ` <YxvNNd4dNTIUu6Rb@bullseye>
2022-09-16 3:51 ` Stefano Garzarella
[not found] ` <3d1f32c4da81f8a0870e126369ba12bc8c4ad048.1660362668.git.bobby.eshleman@bytedance.com>
2022-09-26 13:17 ` [PATCH 4/6] virtio/vsock: add VIRTIO_VSOCK_F_DGRAM feature bit Stefano Garzarella
2022-09-26 13:42 ` [PATCH 0/6] virtio/vsock: introduce dgrams, sk_buff, and qdisc Stefano Garzarella
2022-09-27 17:45 ` Stefano Garzarella
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