On 07/12/2020 12:05, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
Hi Andra,
On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 07:02:31PM +0200, Andra Paraschiv wrote:
vsock enables communication between virtual machines and the host
they are
running on. Nested VMs can be setup to use vsock channels, as the multi
transport support has been available in the mainline since the v5.5
Linux kernel
has been released.
Implicitly, if no host->guest vsock transport is loaded, all the
vsock packets
are forwarded to the host. This behavior can be used to setup
communication
channels between sibling VMs that are running on the same host. One
example can
be the vsock channels that can be established within AWS Nitro Enclaves
(see Documentation/virt/ne_overview.rst).
To be able to explicitly mark a connection as being used for a
certain use case,
add a flags field in the vsock address data structure. The
"svm_reserved1" field
has been repurposed to be the flags field. The value of the flags
will then be
taken into consideration when the vsock transport is assigned. This
way can
distinguish between different use cases, such as nested VMs / local
communication
and sibling VMs.
the series seems in a good shape, I left some minor comments.
I run my test suite (vsock_test, iperf3, nc) with nested VMs (QEMU/KVM),
and everything looks good.
Thanks, Stefano, for review and checking it out for the nested case as well.
I'll send out v3 including the addressed feedback and the Rb tags.
Note: I'll be offline today and tomorrow, so I may miss followups.
Ok, np, thanks for the heads-up.
Andra
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