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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-guest-drivers-windows-2
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 11:01:17 +0300
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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.

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.


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