On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 01:11:02PM +0200, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:

Greg Kroah-Hartman [off-list ref] writes:

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Not to mention the whole crazy idea of "let's implement our REST api
that used to go over a network connection over an ioctl instead!"
That's the main problem that you need to push back on here.

What is forcing you to put all of this into the kernel in the first
place?  What's wrong with the userspace network connection/protocol that
you have today?

Does this mean that we now have to implement all REST apis that people
dream up as ioctl interfaces over a hyperv transport?  That would be
insane.

As far as I understand, the purpose of the driver is to replace a "slow"
network connection to API endpoint with a "fast" transport over
Vmbus.

Given that the network connection is already over vmbus, how is this
"slow" today?  I have yet to see any benchmark numbers anywhere :(

So what if instead of implementing this new driver we just use
Hyper-V Vsock and move API endpoint to the host?

What is running on the host in the hypervisor that is supposed to be
handling these requests?  Isn't that really on some other guest?

confused,

greg k-h