From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ANNIE LI Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Implement persistent grant in xen-netfront/netback Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:14:59 +0800 Message-ID: <50A4CEB3.1050709@oracle.com> References: <1352962987-541-1-git-send-email-annie.li@oracle.com> <1352969771.3499.34.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "konrad.wilk@oracle.com" To: Ian Campbell Return-path: Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:25203 "EHLO userp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2993097Ab2KOLPL (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Nov 2012 06:15:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1352969771.3499.34.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 2012-11-15 16:56, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 07:03 +0000, Annie Li wrote: > >> This patch implements persistent grants for xen-netfront/netback. This >> mechanism maintains page pools in netback/netfront, these page pools >> is used to save grant pages which are mapped. This way improve >> performance which is wasted when doing grant operations. > Please can you send a patch against xen-unstable.hg to document this new > protocol variant in xen/include/public/io/netif.h. This header is a bit > under-documented but lets not let it fall further behind (if you want to > go further and document the existing features, in the style of the > current blkif.h, then that would be awesome!). Ok, no problem. > > You may also want to provide a similar patch to Linux's copy which is in > linux/include/xen/interface/io/netif.h Ok, will do that. Thanks Annie > > Ian. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html