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From: "Tan, Jianfeng" <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
To: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	"maxime.coquelin@redhat.com" <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] net/virtio-user: fix cannot get initialized
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 05:55:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ED26CBA2FAD1BF48A8719AEF02201E365119F632@SHSMSX103.ccr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170414053738.GL7333@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com>



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yuanhan Liu [mailto:yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 1:38 PM
> To: Tan, Jianfeng
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; maxime.coquelin@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net/virtio-user: fix cannot get initialized
> 
> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 04:35:57AM +0000, Tan, Jianfeng wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Yuanhan Liu [mailto:yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 12:24 PM
> > > To: Tan, Jianfeng
> > > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; maxime.coquelin@redhat.com
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net/virtio-user: fix cannot get initialized
> > >
> > > On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 10:11:27AM +0000, Jianfeng Tan wrote:
> > > > The feature negotiation in virtio-user is proven to be broken,
> > > > which results in device initialization failure.
> > > >
> > > > Originally, we get features from vhost backend, and remove those
> > > > that are not supported. But when new feature is added, for example,
> > > > VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU, we fail to remove this new feature. Then, this
> > > > new feature will be negotiated, as both frontend and backend claim
> > > > to support this feature.
> > > >
> > > > To fix it, we add a macro to record supported featues, as a filter
> > > > to remove newly added features.
> > >
> > > Yes, this is much better! You now don't have to worry that virtio-user
> > > will be broken every time we add a new feature.
> > >
> > > Applied to dpdk-next-virtio, with the title changed to "fix feature
> > > negotitation".
> > >
> >
> > Thanks. By the way, it's better backporting it to stable branches, however, I
> forget to CC stable@dpdk.org.
> 
> As long as we don't backport new features to a stable release, there
> should be no problem.
> 
> Besides, the virtio-user features supported in this patch may not match
> those supported by a stable release (say 16.11 LTS). For example, F_STATUS
> is just added in this feature. Thus, I don't think it's a good candidate
> for a stable release (though a backport could fix it).

Make sense. Thanks!

Jianfeng

      reply	other threads:[~2017-04-14  5:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-07  7:57 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Jianfeng Tan
2017-04-13  1:58 ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-04-13  2:18   ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-04-13  2:21     ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-04-13  7:37       ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-04-13  2:36     ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-04-13  7:39       ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-04-13 10:11 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Jianfeng Tan
2017-04-14  4:24   ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-04-14  4:35     ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-04-14  5:37       ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-04-14  5:55         ` Tan, Jianfeng [this message]

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