Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/16] net: Move legacy QEMU VLAN code into net/hub.c

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:22:37AM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> [These patches are based on the net tree at git://github.com/stefanha/net]
> >>
> >> The QEMU net subsystem has the concept of separate network segments, called
> >> "VLANs".  Each VLAN is a broadcast domain so all net clients connected to 
> >> the
> >> same VLAN can communicate with each other.
> >>
> >> Today this feature is mostly used with the "dump" backend, which saves 
> >> packet
> >> captures to .pcap files.  It can still come in useful in other rare cases.
> >>
> >> This patch series moves the VLAN code out of net.c and into net/hub.c.  The
> >> idea is to introduce a software network hub along with hub port net 
> >> clients.
> >> This way we can implement the same semantics of QEMU VLANs using just 
> >> -netdev
> >> peer.  Then -netdev peer becomes the single method of connecting net 
> >> clients.
> >>
> >> The end result of this series is that the net subsystem core is simplified.
> >> Now is a good time to do this because it saves us from modeling QEMU VLANs 
> >> when
> >> we convert the net subsystem to QOM.
> >>
> >> Please note that this series preserves command-line compatibility with the 
> >> QEMU
> >> VLAN feature.  No existing QEMU command-lines should break.
> >>
> >> I have tested the following configurations:
> >>  * -net user -net nic,model=virtio
> >>  * -net user,vlan=1 -net nic,model=virtio,vlan=1
> >>  * -net user,vlan=1 -net nic,model=virtio,vlan=1 -net user,vlan=2 -net 
> >> nic,model=virtio,vlan=2
> >>  * -netdev user,id=netdev0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=netdev0
> >>  * -netdev user,id=netdev0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=netdev0 -net 
> >> user,vlan=2 -net nic,model=virtio,vlan=2
> >>
> >> v2:
> >>  * Change int64_t and unsigned int mess to int which is what VLAN IDs are 
> >> today [Laszlo]
> >>  * Remove bogus error_set() -> qerror_report() merge artifact [Laszlo]
> >>  * Use net_hub_id_for_client(nc, NULL) == 0 instead of adding 
> >> net_hub_port_peer_nc() [Laszlo]
> >>  * Fix stray print_net_client(..., NetClientState *vc) argument name 
> >> [Laszlo]
> >>  * Consistently update vlan -> peer argument name [Laszlo]
> >>  * Drop spurious closesocket(fd), probably merge conflict [Stefan]
> >>
> >> Stefan Hajnoczi (11):
> >>   net: Add a hub net client
> >>   net: Use hubs for the vlan feature
> >>   net: Look up 'vlan' net clients using hubs
> >>   hub: Check that hubs are configured correctly
> >>   net: Drop vlan argument to qemu_new_net_client()
> >>   net: Remove vlan code from net.c
> >>   net: Remove VLANState
> >>   net: Rename non_vlan_clients to net_clients
> >>   net: Rename VLANClientState to NetClientState
> >>   net: Rename vc local variables to nc
> >>   net: Rename qemu_del_vlan_client() to qemu_del_net_client()
> >>
> >> Zhi Yong Wu (5):
> >>   net: Convert qdev_prop_vlan to peer with hub
> >>   net: Make "info network" output more readable info
> >>   net: cleanup deliver/deliver_iov func pointers
> >>   net: determine if packets can be sent before net queue deliver
> >>     packets
> >>   hub: add the support for hub own flow control
> >>
> >>  hw/cadence_gem.c        |    8 +-
> >>  hw/dp8393x.c            |    7 +-
> >>  hw/e1000.c              |   10 +-
> >>  hw/eepro100.c           |    8 +-
> >>  hw/etraxfs_eth.c        |    8 +-
> >>  hw/exynos4_boards.c     |    2 +-
> >>  hw/highbank.c           |    2 +-
> >>  hw/integratorcp.c       |    2 +-
> >>  hw/kzm.c                |    2 +-
> >>  hw/lan9118.c            |    8 +-
> >>  hw/lance.c              |    2 +-
> >>  hw/mcf5208.c            |    2 +-
> >>  hw/mcf_fec.c            |    7 +-
> >>  hw/milkymist-minimac2.c |    6 +-
> >>  hw/mips_mipssim.c       |    2 +-
> >>  hw/mips_r4k.c           |    2 +-
> >>  hw/mipsnet.c            |    6 +-
> >>  hw/musicpal.c           |    6 +-
> >>  hw/ne2000-isa.c         |    2 +-
> >>  hw/ne2000.c             |    8 +-
> >>  hw/ne2000.h             |    4 +-
> >>  hw/opencores_eth.c      |    8 +-
> >>  hw/pcnet-pci.c          |    4 +-
> >>  hw/pcnet.c              |    6 +-
> >>  hw/pcnet.h              |    6 +-
> >>  hw/qdev-properties.c    |   54 +++--
> >>  hw/qdev.c               |    2 -
> >>  hw/qdev.h               |    7 +-
> >>  hw/rtl8139.c            |   10 +-
> >>  hw/smc91c111.c          |    6 +-
> >>  hw/spapr_llan.c         |    4 +-
> >>  hw/stellaris_enet.c     |    6 +-
> >>  hw/usb/dev-network.c    |    8 +-
> >>  hw/vexpress.c           |    2 +-
> >>  hw/vhost_net.c          |   24 +-
> >>  hw/vhost_net.h          |    2 +-
> >>  hw/virtio-net.c         |   12 +-
> >>  hw/xen_nic.c            |    7 +-
> >>  hw/xgmac.c              |    6 +-
> >>  hw/xilinx_axienet.c     |    6 +-
> >>  hw/xilinx_ethlite.c     |    6 +-
> >>  hw/xtensa_lx60.c        |    2 +-
> >>  net.c                   |  616 
> >> ++++++++++++++---------------------------------
> >>  net.h                   |   86 +++----
> >>  net/Makefile.objs       |    2 +-
> >>  net/dump.c              |   27 ++-
> >>  net/dump.h              |    2 +-
> >>  net/hub.c               |  339 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>  net/hub.h               |   29 +++
> >>  net/queue.c             |   38 ++-
> >>  net/queue.h             |   25 +-
> >>  net/slirp.c             |   34 ++-
> >>  net/slirp.h             |    2 +-
> >>  net/socket.c            |   60 ++---
> >>  net/socket.h            |    2 +-
> >>  net/tap-win32.c         |   26 +-
> >>  net/tap.c               |   44 ++--
> >>  net/tap.h               |   20 +-
> >>  net/vde.c               |   16 +-
> >>  net/vde.h               |    2 +-
> >>  qapi-schema.json        |   30 ++-
> >>  qemu-common.h           |    3 +-
> >>  slirp/if.c              |    5 -
> >>  slirp/libslirp.h        |    1 -
> >>  64 files changed, 905 insertions(+), 796 deletions(-)
> >>  create mode 100644 net/hub.c
> >>  create mode 100644 net/hub.h
> >>
> >> --
> >> 1.7.10.4
> >
> > Merged into the net tree:
> > https://github.com/stefanha/qemu/tree/net
> Just checked, and didn't see related commits in your net tree.

Pushed.

Stefan