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Subject: Re: [virtio-comment] [RFC PATCH v1 1/1] virtio-vsock: add SOCK_SEQPACKET description
On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 01:08:43PM +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote:
On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 10:32:00 +0100 Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com> wrote:On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 09:08:23AM +0300, Arseny Krasnov wrote: >Signed-off-by: Arseny Krasnov <arseny.krasnov@kaspersky.com> >--- > virtio-vsock.tex | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- > 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > >diff --git a/virtio-vsock.tex b/virtio-vsock.tex >index da7e641..1ee8f99 100644 >--- a/virtio-vsock.tex >+++ b/virtio-vsock.tex >@@ -102,6 +102,11 @@ \subsection{Device Operation}\label{sec:Device Types / Socket Device / Device Op > VIRTIO_VSOCK_OP_CREDIT_UPDATE = 6, > /* Request the peer to send the credit info to us */ > VIRTIO_VSOCK_OP_CREDIT_REQUEST = 7, >+ >+ /* Message begin for SOCK_SEQPACKET */ >+ VIRTIO_VSOCK_OP_SEQ_BEGIN = 8, >+ /* Message end for SOCK_SEQPACKET */ >+ VIRTIO_VSOCK_OP_SEQ_END = 9, > }; > \end{lstlisting} > >@@ -140,11 +145,11 @@ \subsubsection{Addressing}\label{sec:Device Types / Socket Device / Device Opera > consists of a (cid, port number) tuple. The header fields used for this are > \field{src_cid}, \field{src_port}, \field{dst_cid}, and \field{dst_port}. > >-Currently only stream sockets are supported. \field{type} is 1 for stream >-socket types. >+Currently stream and seqpacket sockets are supported. \field{type} is 1 for >+stream socket types. \field{type} is 2 for seqpacket socket types. > > Stream sockets provide in-order, guaranteed, connection-oriented delivery >-without message boundaries. >+without message boundaries. Seqpacket sockets also provide message boundaries. > > \subsubsection{Buffer Space Management}\label{sec:Device Types / Socket Device / Device Operation / Buffer Space Management} > \field{buf_alloc} and \field{fwd_cnt} are used for buffer space management of >@@ -240,6 +245,35 @@ \subsubsection{Stream Sockets}\label{sec:Device Types / Socket Device / Device O > destination) address tuple for a new connection while the other peer is still > processing the old connection. > >+\subsubsection{Seqpacket Sockets}\label{sec:Device Types / Socket Device / Device Operation / Seqpacket Sockets} >+ >+Seqpacket sockets differ from stream sockets only in data transmission way: in >+stream sockets all data is sent using only VIRTIO_VSOCK_OP_RW packets. In >+seqpacket sockets, to provide message boundaries, every sequence of >+VIRTIO_VSOCK_OP_RW packets of each message is headed with ^ Since this is a spec, I think we should use MUST when something must be respected by the peer, for example here we can say "MUST be headed" >+VIRTIO_VSOCK_OP_SEQ_BEGIN and tailed with VIRTIO_VSOCK_OP_SEQ_END packets. >+Both VIRTIO_VSOCK_OP_SEQ_BEGIN and VIRTIO_VSOCK_OP_SEQ_END packets carry ^ Same here "MUST carry" and in the rest of the patch.Actually, MUST and friends are really for normative sections; I'd advise to have a description of how this feature works and then some device/driver normative clauses with MUST statements (like "the device MUST reject <malformed packets>" or so).
Okay, got it. Thanks for the clarification, Stefano
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