From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx3-rdu2.redhat.com [66.187.233.73]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E11871B745 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:55:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 410EEA1BD3; Tue, 10 Apr 2018 11:55:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.36.112.60] (ovpn-112-60.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.112.60]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7BE7810EE6DC; Tue, 10 Apr 2018 11:55:16 +0000 (UTC) To: "Tan, Jianfeng" , "Yang, Zhiyong" , "dev@dpdk.org" Cc: "Bie, Tiwei" , "Wang, Zhihong" , "Wang, Dong1" , "thomas@monjalon.net" References: <20180406001855.54062-1-zhiyong.yang@intel.com> <20180406092554.9842-1-zhiyong.yang@intel.com> From: Maxime Coquelin Message-ID: Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:55:13 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.78 on 10.11.54.3 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.2]); Tue, 10 Apr 2018 11:55:19 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: inspected by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.2]); Tue, 10 Apr 2018 11:55:19 +0000 (UTC) for IP:'10.11.54.3' DOMAIN:'int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com' HELO:'smtp.corp.redhat.com' FROM:'maxime.coquelin@redhat.com' RCPT:'' Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7] net/virtio-user: add support for server mode X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 11:55:20 -0000 On 04/08/2018 02:36 AM, Tan, Jianfeng wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Yang, Zhiyong >> Sent: Friday, April 6, 2018 5:26 PM >> To:dev@dpdk.org >> Cc: Yang, Zhiyong;maxime.coquelin@redhat.com; Tan, Jianfeng; Bie, Tiwei; >> Wang, Zhihong; Wang, Dong1;thomas@monjalon.net >> Subject: [PATCH v7] net/virtio-user: add support for server mode >> >> In a container environment if the vhost-user backend restarts, there's >> no way for it to reconnect to virtio-user. To address this, support for >> server mode is added. In this mode the socket file is created by virtio- >> user, which the backend then connects to. This means that if the backend >> restarts, it can reconnect to virtio-user and continue communications. >> >> With current implementation, LSC is enabled at virtio-user side to >> support to accept the coming connection. >> >> Server mode virtio-user only supports to work with vhost-user. >> >> Release note is updated in this patch. >> >> Signed-off-by: Zhiyong Yang > Reviewed-by: Jianfeng Tan Applied to dpdk-next-virtio/master. Thanks, Maxime