Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 00/14] vhost-user: shutdown and reconnection

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 07:00:27PM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I'm still not sure users actually need this.  I am inclined to think we
> > should teach guests to respond to NEED_RESET status. Then to handle
> > disconnect, we would
> > - deactivate the disconnected backend
> > - stop VM, and wait for a reconnect
> > - set NEED_RESET status, and re-activate the backend
> >   after guest reset
> 
> Sorry your answer came late, so my reply too ;). It may depend on the
> use case, what I suggest wouldn't need to stop the VM, but merely set
> the link-down status. Furthermore, how do you disconnect/deactivate
> the backend cleanly? Having an explicit message for that and document
> it may make things easier.
> 
> It has been a while I haven't looked at vhost-user, so I am short of
> details, but I rebased this series, if there is still interest. I'll
> send a RFCv2, there are a couple of worthy fixes to pick from that.
> 
> thanks

OK, sure. Let's split this up: fixes, then new features.

> -- 
> Marc-André Lureau