Re: [Patch v5 0/3] Introduce a driver to support host accelerated access to Microsoft Azure Blob for Azure VM

[Vitaly Kuznetsov]

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. So what if instead of implementing this new driver we just use
Hyper-V Vsock and move API endpoint to the host?

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Vitaly