Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH (V9) 0/2] Add V4V to Xen

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 09:56 +0100, Vincent Hanquez wrote:
> On 05/31/2013 08:50 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > So where is this code? Has it been posted upstream? Is anyone working on
> > getting it in a state such that it acceptable upstream? Would it even be
> > acceptable to upstream?
> yes, we're in the process to do so.
> 
> we're currently re-writing our current driver to use vmware's vsocket, 
> which is upstream and also has been split up into generic hypervisor 
> agnostic part (net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c) for other hypervisor to use.
> 
> As such, it's quite likely it will be acceptable upstream, as we would 
> fill the xen part for this new linux "standard". This of course would 
> depends on the xen part being in place too.

I think we need to see and agree on both the client and hypervisor side
before either can be committed, since review on either could cause ABI
changes.

What is your upgrade plan for libvchan users? Is it to add vsock support
to vchan?

Ian.



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