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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Cc: Orit Wasserman <owasserm@redhat.com>,
	chegu_vinod@hp.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, pbonzini@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 9/9] coalesce adjacent iovecs
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:33:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130321183310.GB4800@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8738vopq9i.fsf@elfo.elfo>

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 07:22:01PM +0100, Juan Quintela wrote:
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> >> <header>
> >> <page>
> >> <header>
> >> <page>
> >> <header>
> >> <page>
> >> 
> >> We can optimize at some pount to write a bigger/different header and
> >> sent a bunch of pages together, but just now we don't have that code.
> >> 
> >> Later, Juan.
> >
> > Sending the page can do vmsplice, can't it?
> > Multipage is likely a good idea anyway, e.g. RDMA wants to
> > do this too.
> 
> RDMA requires de pages lock into memory, no?
> 
> Later, Juan.

That's a separate issue, but the point is it is asynchronous.
It can be made to behave exactly the same implementing this API:

	- send async: lock, send
	- flush: poll for completion, unlock

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-21 18:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-21 16:05 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/9] Migration: Remove copying of guest ram pages Orit Wasserman
2013-03-21 16:05 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/9] Add QemuFileWritevBuffer QemuFileOps Orit Wasserman
2013-03-21 16:57   ` Juan Quintela
2013-03-21 16:05 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/9] Add socket_writev_buffer function Orit Wasserman
2013-03-21 16:55   ` Juan Quintela
2013-03-21 16:05 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 3/9] Update bytes_xfer in qemu_put_byte Orit Wasserman
2013-03-21 17:06   ` Juan Quintela
2013-03-21 17:38   ` Eric Blake
2013-03-21 17:41     ` Orit Wasserman
2013-03-21 16:05 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 4/9] Store the data to send also in iovec Orit Wasserman
2013-03-21 17:11   ` Juan Quintela
2013-03-21 16:05 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 5/9] Use writev ops if available Orit Wasserman
2013-03-21 17:17   ` Juan Quintela
2013-03-21 16:05 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 6/9] More optimized qemu_put_be64/32/16 Orit Wasserman
2013-03-21 17:18   ` Juan Quintela
2013-03-21 16:05 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 7/9] Add qemu_put_buffer_no_copy Orit Wasserman
2013-03-21 17:34   ` Juan Quintela
2013-03-21 17:39     ` Orit Wasserman
2013-03-21 16:05 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 8/9] Use qemu_put_buffer_no_copy for guest memory pages Orit Wasserman
2013-03-21 16:14   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-03-21 17:37   ` Juan Quintela
2013-03-21 18:08     ` Orit Wasserman
2013-03-21 18:21       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-03-21 16:05 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 9/9] coalesce adjacent iovecs Orit Wasserman
2013-03-21 16:16   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-03-21 16:27     ` Orit Wasserman
2013-03-21 16:29       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-03-21 16:40         ` Orit Wasserman
2013-03-21 17:10           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-03-21 17:44         ` Juan Quintela
2013-03-21 17:46           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-03-21 18:22             ` Juan Quintela
2013-03-21 18:33               ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2013-03-21 17:41   ` Juan Quintela
2013-03-21 17:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/9] Migration: Remove copying of guest ram pages Paolo Bonzini
2013-03-21 17:35   ` Orit Wasserman
2013-03-21 17:42 ` Juan Quintela

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