From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Herbert Xu <herbert.xu@redhat.com>,
Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] kvm: qemu: virtio_net: add support for mergeable rx buffers
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:32:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1227792737.24571.24.camel@blaa> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <492E9687.7030501@redhat.com>
On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 14:45 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > Hi,
> > The mergeable receive buffers scheme has been in the Linux
> > virtio_net driver in net-next-2.6 for a while now, so it's probably
> > safe to assume what's there now is the final iteration of the ABI.
> >
> > The following patches implement support for the scheme in
> > KVM. Only the 5/5 patch contains functional changes.
> >
>
> Applied all, thanks.
Great.
> > Changes since last time:
> >
> > + We now peak at how much buffer space is actually available in the
> > ring and no longer assume that buffers are at least 4k
> >
> > + The new header is now 'struct virtio_net_hdr_mrg_rxbuf' rather
> > than 'struct virtio_net_hdr2'
> >
>
> Does the updated driver support both?
Nope, just the struct virtio_net_hdr_mrg_rxbuf'
Cheers,
Mark.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-27 13:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-08 19:35 [PATCH 1/5] kvm: qemu: Move virtqueue_next_desc() around Mark McLoughlin
2008-10-08 19:35 ` [PATCH 2/5] kvm: qemu: Introduce virtqueue_fill() and virtqueue_flush() Mark McLoughlin
2008-10-08 19:35 ` [PATCH 3/5] kvm: qemu: Simplify virtio_net_can_receive() a little Mark McLoughlin
2008-10-08 19:35 ` [PATCH 4/5] kvm: qemu: Split iov_fill() out from virtio_net_receive() Mark McLoughlin
2008-10-08 19:35 ` [PATCH 5/5] kvm: qemu: Improve virtio_net recv buffer allocation scheme Mark McLoughlin
2008-10-12 10:00 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-14 13:44 ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-10-14 15:47 ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-26 14:50 ` [PATCH 0/5] kvm: qemu: virtio_net: add support for mergeable rx buffers Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-26 14:50 ` [PATCH 1/5] kvm: qemu: virtio: move virtqueue_next_desc() around Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-26 14:50 ` [PATCH 2/5] kvm: qemu: virtio: introduce virtqueue_fill() and virtqueue_flush() Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-26 14:50 ` [PATCH 3/5] kvm: qemu: virtio: split some helpers out of virtqueue_pop() Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-26 14:50 ` [PATCH 4/5] kvm: qemu: virtio-net: split iov_fill() out from virtio_net_receive() Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-26 14:50 ` [PATCH 5/5] kvm: qemu: virtio-net: add a new virtio-net receive buffer scheme Mark McLoughlin
2008-11-27 12:45 ` [PATCH 0/5] kvm: qemu: virtio_net: add support for mergeable rx buffers Avi Kivity
2008-11-27 13:32 ` Mark McLoughlin [this message]
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