Re: [MirageOS-devel] Jitsu release plan for NSDI

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Using the stashed SYN IP/Mac mapping is a good idea! We do trust them since 
they only come from Synjitsu, and reflect the ARP mapping at the time of the 
original packet. There's a danger of a small race if an ARP update comes in 
right after the boot, but it seems negligible.

-anil

> On 22 Apr 2015, at 11:59, Magnus Skjegstad <magnus@xxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 22 Apr 2015, at 11:47, Richard Mortier wrote:
>> On 22 April 2015 at 10:21, Magnus Skjegstad <magnus@xxxxx> wrote:
>>>> - State of the codebase (refresh/testing/releases/etc)
>>> 
>>> The version of Jitsu we used for evaluation has been released and is in
>>> mirage-dev, but we have not yet used it to host unikernels on a public
>>> server so we will probably discover some new issues when we do that.
>>> Anil and Dave are preparing a Xen server where we will test this.
>>> 
>>> Currently Synjitsu requires an older patched TCP/IP stack and the ARP
>>> tables are a bit difficult to set up. It would be nice if we could merge
>>> the patch into the main stack before NSDI and add a way to configure the
>>> ARP tables dynamically, as it would be much easier to install.
>> 
>> Is this something that Mindy's ARP patches would be useful for? Or is
>> there a simpler path "for now" so that something is ready by NSDI?
> 
> It would probably be useful to be able to share ARP entries between
> Jitsu, Synjitsu and the booted unikernels to reduce ARP traffic. Jitsu
> knows the MAC addresses of all the unikernels it controls and could
> automatically add them to the ARP tables.
> 
> I think the easiest solution "for now" is to add gARP support in Jitsu
> so that the MAC addresses of booting unikernels are advertised in
> advance. The gARP should ideally be sent from Synjitsu though to not
> confuse the switch, so we should probably move the code there later. 
> 
> I'm not sure if we need to update the ARP table in the booting unikernel
> from Synjitsu as well. We add ARP entries manually today, but I guess we
> can just use the src MAC/IP from the SYN to SYNACK? (Thomas?)
> 
> Magnus
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