Subject: Re: [summary] virtio network device failover writeup

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:12:23 -0400

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 06:31:35PM +0200, Liran Alon wrote:
> 
> 
> > On 21 Mar 2019, at 17:50, Michael S. Tsirkin <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 08:45:17AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> >> On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:04:37 +0200
> >> Liran Alon <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> OK. Now what happens if master is moved to another namespace? Do we need
> >>>> to move the slaves too?  
> >>> 
> >>> No. Why would we move the slaves? The whole point is to make most customer ignore the net-failover slaves and remain them “hidden” in their dedicated netns.
> >>> We won’t prevent customer from explicitly moving the net-failover slaves out of this netns, but we will not move them out of there automatically.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> The 2-device netvsc already handles case where master changes namespace.
> > 
> > Is it by moving slave with it?
> 
> See c0a41b887ce6 ("hv_netvsc: move VF to same namespace as netvsc device”).
> It seems that when NetVSC master netdev changes netns, the VF is moved to the same netns by the NetVSC driver.
> Kinda the opposite than what we are suggesting here to make sure that the net-failover master netdev is on a separate
> netns than it’s slaves...
> 
> -Liran
> 
> > 
> > -- 
> > MST

Not exactly opposite I'd say.

If failover is in host ns, slaves in /primary and /standby, then moving
failover to /container should move slaves to /container/primary and
/container/standby.

-- 
MST