RE: [PATCH v16 net-next 0/1] introduce Hyper-V VM Sockets(hv_sock)

[Dexuan Cui]

> From: Michal Kubecek [mailto:mkubecek@xxxxxxx]
> > ......
> > However, though Hyper-V Sockets may seem conceptually similar to
> > AF_VOSCK, there are differences in the transportation layer, and IMO these
> > make the direct code reusing impractical:
> >
> > 1. In AF_VSOCK, the endpoint type is: <u32 ContextID, u32 Port>, but in
> > AF_HYPERV, the endpoint type is: <GUID VM_ID, GUID ServiceID>. Here GUID
> > is 128-bit.
> 
> OK, this could be a problem.
> 
> > 2. AF_VSOCK supports SOCK_DGRAM, while AF_HYPERV doesn't.
> >
> > 3. AF_VSOCK supports some special sock opts, like
> SO_VM_SOCKETS_BUFFER_SIZE,
> > SO_VM_SOCKETS_BUFFER_MIN/MAX_SIZE and
> SO_VM_SOCKETS_CONNECT_TIMEOUT.
> > These are meaningless to AF_HYPERV.
> >
> > 4. Some AF_VSOCK's VMCI transportation ops are meanless to
> AF_HYPERV/VMBus,
> > like .notify_recv_init
> > .notify_recv_pre_block
> > .notify_recv_pre_dequeue
> > .notify_recv_post_dequeue
> > .notify_send_init
> > .notify_send_pre_block
> > .notify_send_pre_enqueue
> > .notify_send_post_enqueue
> > etc.
> >
> > So I think we'd better introduce a new address family: AF_HYPERV.
> 
> I don't quite understand the logic here. All these sound like "AF_VSOCK
> has this feature we don't need so (rather than not using the feature) we
> are not going to use AF_VSOCK". I would understand if you pointed out
> features important for you that are missing in AF_VSOCK but this kind of
> reasoning sounds strange to me.
> 
> Michal Kubecek

Hi Michal,
Sorry, I might not have made me clear.
I didn't mean "AF_VSOCK has this feature we don't need". I didn't mean
"features important for me that are missing in AF_VSOCK", either.

I just wanted to say that I need a new protocol number and I should
have a separate directory in net/, i.e., net/hv_sock/. 

Because AF_VSOCK and AF_HYPERV are conceptually similar, some
people asked why I didn't fit my code into net/vmw_vsock/ and I wrote the
text to explain why that wasn't a good idea: the implementation details
are different and I can't directly reuse the vsock code.

Thanks,
-- Dexuan