Aaron Conole <acon...@redhat.com> writes: > Currently, when using Open vSwitch with DPDK and qemu guests, the recommended > method for joining the guests is via the dpdkvhostuser interface. This > interface uses Unix Domain sockets to communicate. When these sockets are > created, they inherit the permissions and ownership from the vswitchd process. > This can lead to an undesirable state where the QEMU process cannot use the > socket file until manual intervention is performed (via `chown` and/or `chmod` > calls). > > This patchset gives the ability to set the permissions and ownership of all > dpdkvhostuser sockets from the database, avoiding the manual intervention > required to connect QEMU and OVS via DPDK. > > The first patch adds chmod and chown calls to lib, with unit tests. The > second patch hooks those calls into the netdev_dpdk_vhost_user_construct > function, after the socket is created. > > Changes from v2: > * Added a new 2nd patch to series for chmod/chown on already opened files. > There exist known implementations for other systems, including FreeBSD, but > only linux is implemented. ENOTSUP is set when these calls fail on > non-linux > systems.
Ping. I was hoping to have this applied before the 2.6 branch was cut; is that possible? Thanks, Aaron _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
