On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 09:32:13AM +0800, Peng Tao wrote: > Currently, if a connect call fails on a signal or timeout (e.g., guest is still > in the process of starting up), we'll just return to caller and leave the connect > packet queued and they are sent even though the connection is considered a failure, > which can confuse applications with unwanted false connect attempt. > > The patchset enables vsock (both host and guest) to cancel queued packets when > a connect attempt is considered to fail. > > v5 changelog: > - change virtio_vsock_pkt->cancel_token back to virtio_vsock_pkt->vsk As discussed previously, it's an opaque token that is not interpreted or dereferenced. A unique integer could be used instead of the pointer we conveniently use as the token today. I still think it should be void * or uintptr_t, but let's move on. Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxxx>
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