Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-guest-drivers-windows-2

Avi Kivity
2008-05-15T08:01:17Z

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> FWIW, virtio-net is much better with my patches applied.

The can_receive patches?

Again, I'm not opposed to them in principle, I just think that if they
help that this points at a virtio deficiency. Virtio should never leave
the rx queue empty. Consider the case where the virtio queue isn't tied
to a socket buffer, but directly to hardware.

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