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.
next prev parent 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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