[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v7 15/33] net: xen-netback - set name assign type
On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 12:46 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 10:17 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > >> The name contains then xen handle, which is not guaranteed to be > >> stable between restarts, so label this NET_NAME_ENUM. > > > > FWIW the N'th interface for domain with domid D will always be named > > vifD.N. > > > > If you reboot domain D then it's domid will change to E and the new > > device will be vifE.N. > > > > I don't know if that counts as predictable as far as the interface you > > are introducing is concerned. > > That was my understanding, thanks for confirming. > > The idea is that the same interface on the same machine must get the > same name between reboots in order to be considered predictable. So > under the assumption that a rebooted domain should be considered "the > same machine" (i.e., it still has the same local configuration, > possibly referencing the interface names), then we should consider the > names not predictable, so NET_NAME_ENUM. OK, thanks. I'll defer to you understanding of what this interface is supposed to mean: Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> Ian. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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