From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, mashirle@us.ibm.com,
mst@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio: Add ability to detach unused buffers from vrings
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:59:11 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100202.155911.152356006.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201001292349.05360.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:49:05 +1030
> From: Shirley Ma <mashirle@us.ibm.com>
>
> There's currently no way for a virtio driver to ask for unused
> buffers, so it has to keep a list itself to reclaim them at shutdown.
> This is redundant, since virtio_ring stores that information. So
> add a new hook to do this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma <xma@us.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Applied.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-02 23:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-29 13:16 [PATCH 0/2] virtio net improvements Rusty Russell
2010-01-29 13:19 ` [PATCH 1/2] virtio: Add ability to detach unused buffers from vrings Rusty Russell
2010-01-29 13:20 ` [PATCH 2/2] virtio_net: Defer skb allocation in receive path Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:53:38 -0800 Rusty Russell
2010-02-02 23:59 ` David Miller
2010-02-02 23:59 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-02-02 23:27 ` [PATCH 0/2] virtio net improvements Rusty Russell
2010-02-02 23:29 ` David Miller
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