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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
	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, 03 May 2007 17:38:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <463A01F7.90500@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070503151756.GA29629@infradead.org>

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

Drawback is that the guest kernel wouldn't work with older xen versions 
(dom0 netback driver to be exact) any more.  Probably wouldn't be a 
showstopper though, given that xen 3.0.3 probably is almost one year out 
by the time 2.6.22 will be released ...

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-03 15:42 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
2007-05-03 15:38         ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2007-05-03 16:00           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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