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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@citrix.com>,
	<xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>, <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
	<linux@eikelenboom.it>, <paul.durrant@citrix.com>,
	<netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net RFC] xen-netback: Fix grant ref resolution in RX path
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 14:37:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53737192.9050104@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1400056335.21829.2.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com>

On 14/05/14 09:32, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> I am not saying your patch is wrong, only that it adds yet an obscure
>> thing with no comments. In two years, nobody will understand this.
> 
> Agreed.

The long term solution is to make grant copy use the supplied VA to copy
to/from which would mean we no longer need to pass the grant ref around
to do the copy.

This is non-trivial and would required an updated Xen.

It would also fix other use cases (such as a domU providing an iSCSI
target which is used as the block device for a local blkback).

David

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-14 13:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-13 14:31 [PATCH net RFC] xen-netback: Fix grant ref resolution in RX path Zoltan Kiss
2014-05-13 15:47 ` Ian Campbell
2014-05-13 20:18   ` Zoltan Kiss
2014-05-13 16:13 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-05-13 19:25   ` Sander Eikelenboom
2014-05-14  8:32   ` Ian Campbell
2014-05-14 13:37     ` David Vrabel [this message]
2014-05-14 11:12   ` Zoltan Kiss
2014-05-14 11:35     ` Eric Dumazet
2014-05-14 13:25       ` Zoltan Kiss
2014-05-14 16:40         ` Ian Campbell
2014-05-14 17:28           ` Sander Eikelenboom
2014-05-14 18:44           ` Zoltan Kiss
2014-05-15  8:41             ` Ian Campbell
2014-05-15  8:31     ` Ian Campbell
2014-05-15 10:14       ` Zoltan Kiss

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