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From: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@voltaire•com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat•com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, herbert@gondor•apana.org.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] tun: export underlying socket
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:43:02 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AAE1026.4090702@voltaire.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090914091151.GE14030@redhat.com>

Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> That's already possible. However virtualization users are familiar with configuring the tun device, and tun has grown virtualization-specific extensions, so I don't see a reason not to accomodate these uses
Today packets are written/read from/to Qemu to/from tun device, how 
would the use case with vhost will look like?

Is this the user setting an uplink NIC + bridge + per VM tun device but 
the packets will go from/to virtio-net in the guest kernel to/from vhost 
in the host kernel and then from/to vhost to/from tun? so eventually no 
packets will be seen by the qemu process? I don't see what these scheme 
buys people, I got very much confused.

Or.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-14  9:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-10 12:59 [PATCH RFC] tun: export underlying socket Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-10 13:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-09-10 13:27   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-11  4:17 ` Paul Moore
2009-09-11  4:59   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-11  5:36     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-11  6:10       ` Eric Dumazet
2009-09-11  9:44         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-14  8:01       ` Or Gerlitz
2009-09-14  8:07 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-09-14  8:09   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-14  8:17     ` Or Gerlitz
2009-09-14  9:11       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-14  9:43         ` Or Gerlitz [this message]
2009-09-14 10:10           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-14 14:06             ` Or Gerlitz
2009-09-14 15:03               ` Herbert Xu
2009-09-15 13:02                 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-09-15 13:31                   ` Herbert Xu
2009-09-14 15:40               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-15 13:11                 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-09-15 13:18                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-11-02 17:20 ` [PATCHv2] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-11-03 15:10   ` Herbert Xu

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