From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat•com>
To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail•com>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli•us>,
Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel•com>,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber•org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
Netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
virtio-dev@lists•oasis-open.org, "Brandeburg,
Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@intel•com>,
"Duyck, Alexander H" <alexander.h.duyck@intel•com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@wp•pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] virtio_net: Extend virtio to use VF datapath when available
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 21:41:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180302213920-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKgT0UeMQ8GkHLrCHQ_OfFw3beqHVM2QvbRt7zoZKf1Vwvbt1A@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 07:26:25AM -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> The design limits things to a 1:1 relationship since we just have the
> child and backup pointers, but I don't think I am seeing exception
> handling to prevent us from overwriting the child pointers so there
> may be a leak there.
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Alex
In fact maintaining a list in that case would be nicer, and
just use an arbitrary one.
E.g. one can see how a user wanting to swap device 1 for device 2
might first add device 2 with same MAC then drop device 1.
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-02 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-01 20:08 [PATCH v4 0/2] Enable virtio_net to act as a backup for a passthru device Sridhar Samudrala
2018-03-01 20:08 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] virtio_net: Introduce VIRTIO_NET_F_BACKUP feature bit Sridhar Samudrala
2018-03-01 20:08 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] virtio_net: Extend virtio to use VF datapath when available Sridhar Samudrala
2018-03-02 8:36 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-03-02 15:26 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-02 16:20 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-03-02 16:37 ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-03-02 17:06 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-02 19:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-03-02 20:49 ` Siwei Liu
2018-03-03 11:31 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-03-03 18:04 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-03 21:25 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-03-04 0:26 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-04 7:13 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-03-04 18:24 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-04 18:50 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-03-04 21:54 ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-03-04 21:58 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-05 9:21 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-03-05 16:11 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-03-05 22:30 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-03-05 22:47 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-06 3:15 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-03-06 19:08 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-06 22:59 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-03-06 23:27 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-07 2:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-03-07 17:50 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-07 18:06 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-03-07 18:55 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-07 20:11 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-03-12 18:47 ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-03-02 19:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2018-03-02 19:52 ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-03-02 20:10 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-03-02 20:44 ` Siwei Liu
2018-03-02 20:56 ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-03-02 21:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-03-02 21:31 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-03-02 22:26 ` Siwei Liu
2018-03-04 4:00 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-03-02 21:11 ` Siwei Liu
2018-03-02 21:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-03-02 23:56 ` Siwei Liu
2018-03-04 4:04 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-03-12 21:53 ` Siwei Liu
2018-03-02 23:12 ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-03-03 0:09 ` Siwei Liu
2018-03-12 20:12 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-03-12 20:58 ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-03-12 21:08 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-03-14 0:36 ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-03-14 0:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-03-14 15:45 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-03-12 22:44 ` Siwei Liu
2018-03-14 0:28 ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-03-14 0:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-03-14 4:50 ` Siwei Liu
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