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From: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] xen-netfront: try linearizing SKB if it occupies
 too many slots
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 14:12:14 +0100
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Hi,

Yes, it lost traction recently a little bit. The latest idea is to use 
the skb segmenting code in netfront to slice up the skb until it becomes 
a set of skbs which can fit through the ring. But to test that out I 
need to make pktgen work with TCP, that's where this got stopped.

Zoli


On 02/07/14 13:23, Stefan Bader wrote:
> On 30.05.2014 14:07, Zoltan Kiss wrote:
>> On 30/05/14 09:06, Stefan Bader wrote:
>>> On 16.05.2014 18:29, Zoltan Kiss wrote:
>>>> On 16/05/14 16:34, Wei Liu wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 08:22:19AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 15:36 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
>>>>>>> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 07:21:08AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 14:11 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
>
> Hi Zoltan,
>
> I lost a bit track about this. I think I saw some summary about brainstorming
> something similar but for the backend from you (not sure). I think during last
> Xen Hackathon. I cannot remember that got to some solution on the netfront side.
> Do I miss something?
>
> -Stefan
>>
>> Regads,
>>
>> Zoltan