Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] VirtIO RNG

[Ian Molton]

Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
>> * the SIZE property patch:    Msg-Id:<address@hidden>
> 
> Fine with me.

\o/

So should I re-post that patch, or can I count on that being folded into
mainline ?

>> * the socket reconnect patch: Msg-Id:<address@hidden>
> 
> Not sure yet.

Comment below...

> I think it makes sense to have a separate chardev backend for it, so you
> can easily hook it up to either virtio-rng or something else, i.e.
> define a chardev for the egd connection like this:
> 
> -chardev backend=egd,id=egd,server=$address,$rate-limit-options-here

Yes, I like the look of that, at least in principle.

> It might make sense to have the reconnect logic in the egd chardev
> backend then, thereby obsoleting the socket reconnect patch.

Im not sure I agree there... surely there are other things which would
benefit from generic socket reconnection support (virtio-rng cant be the
only driver that might want to rely on a reliable source of data via a
socket in a server-farm type situation?)

Do we really want to re-implement reconnection (and reconnection retry
anti-flood limiting) in every single backend?

Thanks for the review - if we can nail down the reconnection issue, I'll
set about a rework of the patchset and resubmit :-)

-Ian