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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Shirley Ma <mashirle@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin <mst"@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1 net-next] virtio_net: remove send queue
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 12:11:13 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201002081211.13959.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1265147331.672.20.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 08:18:51 am Shirley Ma wrote:
> Use detach buffers API in virtio to free unused buffers in send queue when shutting down 
> virtio_net to avoid maintaining skb link list for each transmit packet.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma <xma@us.ibm.com>

Hi Shirley,

  Nice cleanup.  Please cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org for net patches...

Your comment could be slightly enhanced to indicate that the API is new, eg;

	Now we have a virtio detach API (in commit XXXXXXXXXX), we don't need to
	track xmit skbs in the	driver.

Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Thanks!
Rusty.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-08  1:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <201001292346.43675.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
     [not found] ` <201001292349.05360.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
     [not found]   ` <201001292350.04544.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-02-02 21:48     ` [PATCH 1/1 net-next] virtio_net: remove send queue Shirley Ma
2010-02-02 21:52       ` [PATCH 0/1 " Shirley Ma
2010-02-03 10:03       ` [PATCH 1/1 " Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-02-08  1:41       ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2010-02-09  0:14 Shirley Ma
2010-02-10 16:54 ` Shirley Ma
2010-02-12 20:28 ` David Miller

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