Re: [PATCH 4/6] virtio network driver

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Paul Brook wrote:
> On Saturday 29 March 2008, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
>> +    if ((elem = virtqueue_pop(n->rx_vq)) == NULL) {
>> +       /* wait until the guest adds some rx bufs */
>> +       n->can_receive = 0;
>> +       return;
>> +    }
>>     
>
> Setting can_receive to zero *after* dropping a packet is a bit late.
> Not a fatal flaw, but it does make can_receive fairly useless. The whole point 
> of can_receive is to workaround lack of proper TCP rate control in the slirp 
> code.
>   

Yeah, I should just drop the can_receive handler.  I assumed when I 
wrote the driver originally that can_receive queued packets.  Since we 
have to drop packets anyway in the code now, there's no point in having 
a can_receive handler.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Paul
>