On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 04:09:40PM +0800, Dong, Eddie wrote: > > Xiaohui & Herbert: > Mixing copy of head & 0-copy of bulk data imposes additional challange > to find the guest buffer. The backend driver may be unable to find a spare > guest buffer from virtqueue at that time which may block the receiving > process then. > Can't we completely eliminate netdev_alloc_skb here? Assigning guest > buffer at this time makes life much easier.
I'm not sure I understand you concern. If you mean that when the guest doesn't give enough pages to the host and the host can't receive on behalf of the guest then isn't that already the case with the original patch-set? Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
