[RFC PATCH] virtio_net: Extend virtio to use VF datapath when available

Stephen Hemminger
Tue, 19 Dec 2017 19:46:27 -0000

On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 11:42:33 -0800
"Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala at intel.com> wrote:

> On 12/19/2017 10:41 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 13:21:17 -0500 (EST)
> > David Miller <davem at davemloft.net> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> >> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 09:55:48 -0800
> >>
> >>> could be 10ms, just enough to let udev do its renaming
> >> Please, move to some kind of notification or event based handling
of
> >> this problem.
> >>
> >> No delay is safe, what if userspace gets swapped out or whatever
> >> else might make userspace stall unexpectedly?
> >>
> > The plan is to remove the delay and do the naming in the kernel.
> > This was suggested by Lennart since udev is only doing naming policy
> > because kernel names were not repeatable.
> >
> > This makes the VF show up as "ethN_vf" on Hyper-V which is
user friendly.
> >
> > Patch is pending.
> Do we really need to delay the setup until the name is changed?
> Can't we call dev_set_mtu() and dev_open() until dev_change_name() is
done?
>
> Thanks
> Sridhar

You can call dev_set_mtu, but when dev_open is done the device name
can not be changed by userspace.