Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] net: del hub port when peer is deleted

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 09:37:54AM +0008, Jason Wang wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 10:25 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
> >On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 03:06:37PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> >> We should del hub port when peer is deleted since it will not be reused
> >> and will only be freed during exit.
> >> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <address@hidden>
> >> ---
> >>  net/net.c | 2 ++
> >>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >> diff --git a/net/net.c b/net/net.c
> >> index 7acc162..74e651e 100644
> >> --- a/net/net.c
> >> +++ b/net/net.c
> >> @@ -996,6 +996,8 @@ void net_host_device_remove(Monitor *mon, const
> >>QDict *qdict)
> >>          error_report("invalid host network device '%s'", device);
> >>          return;
> >>      }
> >> +
> >> +    qemu_del_net_client(nc->peer);
> >>      qemu_del_net_client(nc);
> >>  }
> >
> >If qmp_netdev_del() is used the hub port will stay alive.
> 
> This is true if it has a peer. And the port will be freed during the
> deletion of its peer. If no peer, it will be deleted soon. This is
> consistent with the behaviors of other type of netdevs.
> >
> >Should the peer deletion happen in qemu_del_net_client(), similar to the
> >existing NIC peer check?
> >
> >  /* If there is a peer NIC, delete and cleanup client, but do not free.
> >*/
> >  if (nc->peer && nc->peer->info->type == NET_CLIENT_OPTIONS_KIND_NIC) {
> >
> >This way the hub port is consistently deleted when its peer is deleted.
> 
> Not sure, but if management always do netdev_del after device_del, it will
> get an error.

Okay, I will merge this patch as-is.

Stefan

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