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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/10] RFCv3: vhost-user: simple reconnection su
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Yuanhan Liu |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/10] RFCv3: vhost-user: simple reconnection support |
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Tue, 10 May 2016 10:14:01 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
Hi Marc,
I was also thinking we should do it in this way first. That simplfies
things. So, feel free to add:
Tested-by: Yuanhan Liu <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Yuanhan Liu <address@hidden>
(well, I didn't review the test case carefully).
Thanks.
--yliu
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 06:03:50PM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> From: Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden>
>
> Hi,
>
> In a previous series "RFCv2: vhost-user: shutdown and reconnection", I
> proposed to add a new slave request to handle graceful shutdown, for
> both qemu configuration, server or client, while keeping the guest
> running with link down status.
>
> However, for the simple case where qemu is configured as server, and
> the backend processes packets in order and disconnects, it is possible
> for the backend to recover after reconnection by discarding the qemu
> SET_VRING_BASE value and resuming from the used->index instead. This
> simplifies the reconnection support in this particular situation (it
> would make sense to have the backend declare this behaviour with an
> extra flag)
>
> The guest won't be notified of link status change and queues may not
> be processed in a timely manner, also qemu may assert if some
> vhost-user commands are happening while the backend is disconnected.
> So the reconnection must happen "quickly enough" here. In order to
> keep the series relatively small, these further problems will be
> addressed later.
>
> These series demonstrates a simple reconnect support for vubr
> (configured as client and qemu as server), includes some nice to
> have fixes and a simple test.
>
> Marc-André Lureau (8):
> vubr: add client mode
> vubr: workaround stale vring base
> vhost-user: disconnect on start failure
> vhost-net: do not crash if backend is not present
> vhost-net: save & restore vhost-user acked features
> vhost-net: save & restore vring enable state
> tests: append i386 tests
> test: start vhost-user reconnect test
>
> Tetsuya Mukawa (2):
> vhost-user: add ability to know vhost-user backend disconnection
> qemu-char: add qemu_chr_disconnect to close a fd accepted by listen fd
>
> hw/net/vhost_net.c | 39 ++++++++++++++-
> include/net/net.h | 1 +
> include/net/vhost-user.h | 1 +
> include/net/vhost_net.h | 3 ++
> include/sysemu/char.h | 7 +++
> net/vhost-user.c | 32 +++++++++++-
> qemu-char.c | 8 +++
> tests/Makefile | 2 +-
> tests/vhost-user-bridge.c | 45 ++++++++++++-----
> tests/vhost-user-test.c | 123
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> 10 files changed, 228 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.7.4
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/10] vhost-net: do not crash if backend is not present, (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/10] vhost-net: do not crash if backend is not present, marcandre . lureau, 2016/05/10
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/10] vhost-net: save & restore vring enable state, marcandre . lureau, 2016/05/10
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/10] vhost-net: save & restore vhost-user acked features, marcandre . lureau, 2016/05/10
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/10] test: start vhost-user reconnect test, marcandre . lureau, 2016/05/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/10] RFCv3: vhost-user: simple reconnection support, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2016/05/10
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