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From: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>, passt-dev@passt.top
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/24] util: move IP stuff from util.[ch] to ip.[ch]
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2024 10:03:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240207100319.24c869db@elisabeth> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZcB8lKoU3nQA9ugy@zatzit>

Not related to the review of the patch itself:

On Mon, 5 Feb 2024 17:13:40 +1100
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 03:11:32PM +0100, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> 
> > [...]
> >
> > +struct ipv6hdr {  
> 
> Not really in scope for this patch, but I have wondered if we should
> try to use struct ip6_hdr from netinet/ip6.h instead of our own
> version (derived, I think, from the kernel one).

The reason why I went with this is that the one in netinet/ip6.h looks
fairly unusable to me: there are no explicit fields for version and
priority, and names are long and a bit obscure, as defined by RFC 3542:
does 'ctlun' actually mean "control union"?

-- 
Stefano


  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-07  9:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-02 14:11 [PATCH 00/24] Add vhost-user support to passt Laurent Vivier
2024-02-02 14:11 ` [PATCH 01/24] iov: add some functions to manage iovec Laurent Vivier
2024-02-05  5:57   ` David Gibson
2024-02-06 14:28     ` Laurent Vivier
2024-02-07  1:01       ` David Gibson
2024-02-07 10:00         ` Laurent Vivier
2024-02-06 16:10   ` Stefano Brivio
2024-02-07 14:02     ` Laurent Vivier
2024-02-07 14:57       ` Stefano Brivio
2024-02-02 14:11 ` [PATCH 02/24] pcap: add pcap_iov() Laurent Vivier
2024-02-05  6:25   ` David Gibson
2024-02-06 16:10   ` Stefano Brivio
2024-02-02 14:11 ` [PATCH 03/24] checksum: align buffers Laurent Vivier
2024-02-05  6:02   ` David Gibson
2024-02-07  9:01     ` Stefano Brivio
2024-02-02 14:11 ` [PATCH 04/24] checksum: add csum_iov() Laurent Vivier
2024-02-05  6:07   ` David Gibson
2024-02-07  9:02   ` Stefano Brivio
2024-02-02 14:11 ` [PATCH 05/24] util: move IP stuff from util.[ch] to ip.[ch] Laurent Vivier
2024-02-05  6:13   ` David Gibson
2024-02-07  9:03     ` Stefano Brivio [this message]
2024-02-08  0:04       ` David Gibson
2024-02-02 14:11 ` [PATCH 06/24] ip: move duplicate IPv4 checksum function to ip.h Laurent Vivier
2024-02-05  6:16   ` David Gibson
2024-02-07 10:40   ` Stefano Brivio
2024-02-07 23:43     ` David Gibson
2024-02-02 14:11 ` [PATCH 07/24] ip: introduce functions to compute the header part checksum for TCP/UDP Laurent Vivier
2024-02-05  6:20   ` David Gibson
2024-02-07 10:41   ` Stefano Brivio
2024-02-02 14:11 ` [PATCH 08/24] tcp: extract buffer management from tcp_send_flag() Laurent Vivier
2024-02-06  0:24   ` David Gibson
2024-02-08 16:57   ` Stefano Brivio
2024-02-02 14:11 ` [PATCH 09/24] tcp: extract buffer management from tcp_conn_tap_mss() Laurent Vivier
2024-02-06  0:47   ` David Gibson
2024-02-08 16:59   ` Stefano Brivio
2024-02-02 14:11 ` [PATCH 10/24] tcp: rename functions that manage buffers Laurent Vivier
2024-02-06  1:48   ` David Gibson
2024-02-08 17:10     ` Stefano Brivio
2024-02-02 14:11 ` [PATCH 11/24] tcp: move buffers management functions to their own file Laurent Vivier
2024-02-02 14:11 ` [PATCH 12/24] tap: make tap_update_mac() generic Laurent Vivier
2024-02-06  1:49   ` David Gibson
2024-02-08 17:10     ` Stefano Brivio
2024-02-09  5:02       ` David Gibson
2024-02-02 14:11 ` [PATCH 13/24] tap: export pool_flush()/tapX_handler()/packet_add() Laurent Vivier
2024-02-02 14:29   ` Laurent Vivier
2024-02-06  1:52   ` David Gibson
2024-02-11 23:15   ` Stefano Brivio
2024-02-12  2:22     ` David Gibson
2024-02-02 14:11 ` [PATCH 14/24] udp: move udpX_l2_buf_t and udpX_l2_mh_sock out of udp_update_hdrX() Laurent Vivier
2024-02-06  1:59   ` David Gibson
2024-02-11 23:16   ` Stefano Brivio
2024-02-02 14:11 ` [PATCH 15/24] udp: rename udp_sock_handler() to udp_buf_sock_handler() Laurent Vivier
2024-02-06  2:14   ` David Gibson
2024-02-11 23:17     ` Stefano Brivio
2024-02-02 14:11 ` [PATCH 16/24] packet: replace struct desc by struct iovec Laurent Vivier
2024-02-06  2:25   ` David Gibson
2024-02-11 23:18     ` Stefano Brivio
2024-02-02 14:11 ` [PATCH 17/24] vhost-user: compare mode MODE_PASTA and not MODE_PASST Laurent Vivier
2024-02-06  2:29   ` David Gibson
2024-02-02 14:11 ` [PATCH 18/24] vhost-user: introduce virtio API Laurent Vivier
2024-02-06  3:51   ` David Gibson
2024-02-11 23:18     ` Stefano Brivio
2024-02-12  2:26       ` David Gibson
2024-02-02 14:11 ` [PATCH 19/24] vhost-user: introduce vhost-user API Laurent Vivier
2024-02-07  2:13   ` David Gibson
2024-02-02 14:11 ` [PATCH 20/24] vhost-user: add vhost-user Laurent Vivier
2024-02-07  2:40   ` David Gibson
2024-02-11 23:19     ` Stefano Brivio
2024-02-12  2:47       ` David Gibson
2024-02-13 15:22         ` Stefano Brivio
2024-02-14  2:05           ` David Gibson
2024-02-11 23:19   ` Stefano Brivio
2024-02-12  2:49     ` David Gibson
2024-02-12 10:02       ` Laurent Vivier
2024-02-12 16:56         ` Stefano Brivio
2024-02-02 14:11 ` [PATCH 21/24] vhost-user: use guest buffer directly in vu_handle_tx() Laurent Vivier
2024-02-09  4:26   ` David Gibson
2024-02-02 14:11 ` [PATCH 22/24] tcp: vhost-user RX nocopy Laurent Vivier
2024-02-09  4:57   ` David Gibson
2024-02-02 14:11 ` [PATCH 23/24] udp: " Laurent Vivier
2024-02-09  5:00   ` David Gibson
2024-02-02 14:11 ` [PATCH 24/24] vhost-user: remove tap_send_frames_vu() Laurent Vivier
2024-02-09  5:01   ` David Gibson

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