From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>,
"Mark McLoughlin" <markmc@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: add drop_packets parameter to -net nic
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:42:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DB57A39.1030508@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTik1GXp4D-TJAOXFmKYWuo1yMXs1ew@mail.gmail.com>
On 04/25/2011 08:40 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> 2011/4/25 Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy<pclouds@gmail.com>:
>> Dropping packets is sometimes perferred behavior. Add drop_packets
>> parameter to NICConf struct and let nic simulation decide how to use
>> it.
>>
>> Only e1000 supports this for now.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy<pclouds@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> Documentation is missing, but I'm not even sure if there's any other
>> user who finds this useful.
>
> Can you explain why you are adding this? You are trying to bypass the
> send queue and drop packets instead?
And some performance results always help with this sort of thing.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
>
> Stefan
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-25 13:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-25 2:10 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: add drop_packets parameter to -net nic Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2011-04-25 13:40 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-04-25 13:42 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2011-04-25 14:06 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-04-26 9:14 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-04-26 10:07 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
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