From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: [GIT PULL] xen-netfront driver updates for 2.6.36 Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:11:20 -0700 Message-ID: <4C585BC8.5070203@goop.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , NetDev , "Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , "Xu, Dongxiao" To: David Miller Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hi Dave, Here's a git branch with some updates to the Xen netfront driver, which add a new "smartpoll" mode to the netfront backend protocol, which is basically equivalent to interrupt mitigation. They've been in linux-next for a week or so. Do you want to take this via the net tree, or are you OK with me submitting them directly? Thanks, J The following changes since commit 74fca6a42863ffacaf7ba6f1936a9f228950f657: Linux 2.6.31 (2009-09-09 15:13:59 -0700) are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git upstream/netfront Dongxiao Xu (1): xen/netfront: Use smart polling instead of event notification. Ian Campbell (2): xen/rings: make protocol specific usage of shared sring explicit xen/netfront: make protocol specific usage of shared sring explicit drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 114 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- include/xen/interface/io/ring.h | 11 ++++- 2 files changed, 122 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)