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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: netfront for review
Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 16:17:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070503151756.GA29629@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46399057.4000409@redhat.com>

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:33:43AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> >Guess so.  It defaults to flip.  I simplified the rx_copy/flip module
> >parameter to a simple rx_mode=0/1, but this is preserved from the
> >original.  My guess is that originally there was only flip, and copy was
> >added later.
> 
> Yep, page flipping is the old (pre xen 3.0.3) way, copy was added (and 
> made the default) later.

So can we please just rip out the obsolete code completely?  There's
no point adding this code anymore.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-03 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4637D672.5030706@goop.org>
2007-05-02  3:37 ` netfront for review Rusty Russell
2007-05-02  3:51   ` Herbert Xu
2007-05-02  4:23     ` Rusty Russell
2007-05-02  4:18   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-02 19:47   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-03  7:33     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2007-05-03 14:27       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-03 14:30         ` Keir Fraser
2007-05-03 14:34         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2007-05-03 15:17       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-05-03 15:38         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2007-05-03 16:00           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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