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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat•com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber•org>
Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel•com>,
	davem@davemloft•net, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists•linux-foundation.org,
	virtio-dev@lists•oasis-open.org, jesse.brandeburg@intel•com,
	alexander.h.duyck@intel•com, kubakici@wp•pl, jasowang@redhat•com,
	loseweigh@gmail•com, jiri@resnulli•us
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 net-next 4/4] netvsc: refactor notifier/event handling code to use the failover framework
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 18:43:54 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180420183505-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180420082802.6ca37e4c@xeon-e3>

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 08:28:02AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 18:42:04 -0700
> Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel•com> wrote:
> 
> > Use the registration/notification framework supported by the generic
> > failover infrastructure.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel•com>
> 
> Do what you want to other devices but leave netvsc alone.
> Adding these failover ops does not reduce the code size,

drivers/net/hyperv/Kconfig      |   1 +
drivers/net/hyperv/hyperv_net.h |   2 +
drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c | 208 ++++++++++------------------------------
3 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 156 deletions(-)

100 lines gone.


> and really is
> no benefit.  The netvsc device driver needs to be backported to several
> other distributions and doing this makes that harder.
> 
> I will NAK patches to change to common code for netvsc

Wow.

> especially the
> three device model.

AFAIK these patches do not change netvsc to a three device model.

> MS worked hard with distro vendors to support transparent
> mode, ans we really can't have a new model;

That's why Sridhar worked hard to preserve a 2 device model for netvsc.

> or do backport.
>
> Plus, DPDK is now dependent on existing model.

DPDK does the kernel bypass thing, doesn't it? Why does the kernel care?

-- 
MST

  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-20 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-20  1:42 [PATCH net-next v7 0/4] Enable virtio_net to act as a standby for a passthru device Sridhar Samudrala
2018-04-20  1:42 ` [PATCH v7 net-next 1/4] virtio_net: Introduce VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY feature bit Sridhar Samudrala
2018-04-20  1:42 ` [PATCH v7 net-next 2/4] net: Introduce generic failover module Sridhar Samudrala
2018-04-20  2:44   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-20 15:21     ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-04-20 15:34       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-20 15:56         ` [virtio-dev] " Alexander Duyck
2018-04-20 16:03           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-20  3:34   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-22 17:06   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-23 17:21     ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-04-22 18:29   ` kbuild test robot
2018-04-20  1:42 ` [PATCH v7 net-next 3/4] virtio_net: Extend virtio to use VF datapath when available Sridhar Samudrala
2018-04-20  2:46   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-22 15:41   ` kbuild test robot
2018-04-22 15:41   ` kbuild test robot
2018-04-20  1:42 ` [PATCH v7 net-next 4/4] netvsc: refactor notifier/event handling code to use the failover framework Sridhar Samudrala
2018-04-20 15:28   ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-20 15:43     ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2018-04-20 15:47       ` David Miller
2018-04-20 15:46     ` David Miller
2018-04-20 15:46     ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-04-20 16:00     ` Jiri Pirko
2018-04-23 17:04       ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-23 17:24         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-23 17:44           ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-23 17:56             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-23 19:44               ` Siwei Liu
2018-04-23 20:06                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-24  1:28                   ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-25 21:38                   ` Siwei Liu
2018-04-25 22:22                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-25 22:57                       ` Siwei Liu
2018-04-26  0:18                         ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-26  2:43                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-26  2:28                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-26 22:14                           ` Siwei Liu
2018-04-26 23:42                             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-28  0:43                               ` Siwei Liu
2018-04-24  1:25                 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-24  1:42                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-24  5:07                     ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-23 17:25         ` Jiri Pirko
2018-04-22 15:41   ` kbuild test robot

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