On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:46:43 pm Rusty Russell wrote:
Hi Dave,
Nice driver optimization from Shirley, but requires a new virtio hook.
Do you want to take both? I have nothing else overlapping it.
Dave, any news on this? Shirley, I note that your final commit message did
not contain this
From: Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 09:57:06 +1030
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:46:43 pm Rusty Russell wrote:
Hi Dave,
Nice driver optimization from Shirley, but requires a new virtio hook.
Do you want to take both? I have nothing else overlapping it.
Dave, any
From: Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:49:05 +1030
From: Shirley Ma mashi...@us.ibm.com
There's currently no way for a virtio driver to ask for unused
buffers, so it has to keep a list itself to reclaim them at shutdown.
This is redundant, since virtio_ring
From: Rusty Russell ru...@rustcorp.com.au
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:50:04 +1030
From: Shirley Ma mashi...@us.ibm.com
virtio_net receives packets from its pre-allocated vring buffers, then it
delivers these packets to upper layer protocols as skb buffs. So it's not
necessary to pre-allocate
