On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 10:44:40AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 20:24:56 +0300 > "Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 10:04:06AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > > > > > > > >I will NAK patches to change to common code for netvsc especially the > > > > >three device model. MS worked hard with distro vendors to support > > > > >transparent > > > > >mode, ans we really can't have a new model; or do backport. > > > > > > > > > >Plus, DPDK is now dependent on existing model. > > > > > > > > Sorry, but nobody here cares about dpdk or other similar oddities. > > > > > > The network device model is a userspace API, and DPDK is a userspace > > > application. > > > > It is userspace but are you sure dpdk is actually poking at netdevs? > > AFAIK it's normally banging device registers directly. > > > > > You can't go breaking userspace even if you don't like the application. > > > > Could you please explain how is the proposed patchset breaking > > userspace? Ignoring DPDK for now, I don't think it changes the userspace > > API at all. > > > > The DPDK has a device driver vdev_netvsc which scans the Linux network devices > to look for Linux netvsc device and the paired VF device and setup the > DPDK environment. This setup creates a DPDK failsafe (bondingish) instance > and sets up TAP support over the Linux netvsc device as well as the Mellanox > VF device. > > So it depends on existing 2 device model. You can't go to a 3 device model > or start hiding devices from userspace.
Okay so how does the existing patch break that? IIUC does not go to a 3 device model since netvsc calls failover_register directly. > Also, I am working on associating netvsc and VF device based on serial number > rather than MAC address. The serial number is how Windows works now, and it > makes > sense for Linux and Windows to use the same mechanism if possible. Maybe we should support same for virtio ... Which serial do you mean? From vpd? I guess you will want to keep supporting MAC for old hypervisors? It all seems like a reasonable thing to support in the generic core. -- MST --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: virtio-dev-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: virtio-dev-h...@lists.oasis-open.org
