Re: [RFC PATCH 00/13] vsock: add multi-transports support

From: Stefano Garzarella
Date: Fri Oct 04 2019 - 05:16:13 EST


On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 12:04:46AM +0000, Dexuan Cui wrote:
> > From: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, September 27, 2019 4:27 AM
> > ...
> > Patch 9 changes the hvs_remote_addr_init(). setting the
> > VMADDR_CID_HOST as remote CID instead of VMADDR_CID_ANY to make
> > the choice of transport to be used work properly.
> > @Dexuan Could this change break anything?
>
> This patch looks good to me.
>

Thank you very much for your reviews!

> > @Dexuan please can you test on HyperV that I didn't break anything
> > even without nested VMs?
>
> I did some quick tests with the 13 patches in a Linux VM (this is not
> a nested VM) on Hyper-V and it looks nothing is broken. :-)
>

Great :-)

> > I'll try to setup a Windows host where to test the nested VMs
>
> I suppose you're going to run a Linux VM on a Hyper-V host,
> and the Linux VM itself runs KVM/VmWare so it can create its own child
> VMs. IMO this is similar to the test "nested KVM ( ..., virtio-transport[L1,L2]"
> you have done.

Yes, I think so. If the Hyper-V transport works well without nested VM,
it should work the same with a nested KVM/VMware.

Thanks,
Stefano