RE: [PATCH] vsock: only load vmci transport on VMware hypervisor by default

[Dexuan Cui]

> From: Stefan Hajnoczi [mailto:stefanha@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2017 4:55 AM
> ...
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 03:37:07PM +0000, Jorgen S. Hansen wrote:
> > > On Aug 29, 2017, at 4:36 AM, Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > If we allow multiple host side transports, virtio host side support and
> > vmci should be able to coexist regardless of the order of initialization.
> 
> That sounds good to me.
> 
> This means af_vsock.c needs to be aware of CID allocation.  Currently the
> vhost_vsock.ko driver handles this itself (it keeps a list of CIDs and
> checks that they are not used twice).  It should be possible to move
> that state into af_vsock.c so we have <cid, host_transport> pairs.
> 
> I'm currently working on NFS over AF_VSOCK and sock_diag support (for
> ss(8) and netstat-like tools).
> 
> Multi-transport support is lower priority for me at the moment.  I'm
> happy to review patches though.  If there is no progress on this by the
> end of the year then I will have time to work on it.
I understand. Thank you both for sharing the details about the plan!
 
> Are either of you are in Prague, Czech Republic on October 25-27 for
> Linux Kernel Summit, Open Source Summit Europe, Embedded Linux
> Conference Europe, KVM Forum, or MesosCon Europe?
> 
> Stefan
I regret I won't be there this year. 

Thanks,
-- Dexuan