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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen network backend driver
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:31:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1295465501.3693.78.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1295465147.11126.57.camel@bwh-desktop>

On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 19:25 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: 
> If NAPI doesn't work for netback, with or without RPS, maybe you have to
> use that kthread.  But please don't reinvent the wheel by creating your
> own tasklets or require users to set a special parameter.

Agreed, the tasklets really should have been deprecated in favour of the
kthread long ago anyway and I should definitely have thought to nuke
them as part of the preparation for upstreaming.

Hopefully NAPI can be made to work for this case anyway.

Ian.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-19 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-19 15:01 [PATCH] xen network backend driver Ian Campbell
2011-01-19 16:40 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-01-19 17:48   ` Ian Campbell
2011-01-19 18:05     ` Ben Hutchings
2011-01-19 19:16       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-01-19 19:24         ` Ian Campbell
2011-01-19 19:25         ` Ben Hutchings
2011-01-19 19:31           ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2011-01-19 19:28         ` [Xen-devel] " Pasi Kärkkäinen
2011-01-19 19:48           ` Ben Hutchings
2011-01-19 19:58             ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2011-01-19 20:16               ` Ben Hutchings

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