From: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@citrix.com>
To: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] xen-netback: Changes around carrier handling
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 16:34:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53DFA7FE.3000507@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1407165658-20146-1-git-send-email-zoltan.kiss@citrix.com>
On 04/08/14 16:20, Zoltan Kiss wrote:
> This series starts using carrier off as a way to purge packets when the guest is
> not able (or willing) to receive them. It is a much faster way to get rid of
> packets waiting for an overwhelmed guest.
> The first patch changes current netback code where it relies currently on
> netif_carrier_ok.
> The second turns off the carrier if the guest times out on a queue, and only
> turn it on again if that queue (or queues) resurrects.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@citrix.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
>
Sorry, I forgot to include v2 in the subject header, and the version
history for the second patch:
v2:
- added a lot more comments
- fixing the bit checking in RX interrupt
- move out the bulk of the code from the main thread function into
xenvif_rx_purge_event
Zoli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-04 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-04 15:20 [PATCH net-next 0/2] xen-netback: Changes around carrier handling Zoltan Kiss
2014-08-04 15:20 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] xen-netback: Using a new state bit instead of carrier Zoltan Kiss
2014-08-05 12:45 ` Wei Liu
2014-08-06 18:25 ` Zoltan Kiss
2014-08-04 15:20 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] xen-netback: Turn off the carrier if the guest is not able to receive Zoltan Kiss
2014-08-05 12:45 ` Wei Liu
2014-08-06 19:18 ` Zoltan Kiss
2014-08-04 15:34 ` Zoltan Kiss [this message]
2014-08-05 23:07 ` [PATCH net-next 0/2] xen-netback: Changes around carrier handling David Miller
2014-08-06 0:00 ` Wei Liu
2014-08-06 1:50 ` David Miller
2014-08-06 8:54 ` Wei Liu
2014-08-06 19:20 ` Zoltan Kiss
2014-08-06 21:01 ` David Miller
2014-08-07 15:51 ` Zoltan Kiss
2014-08-08 5:28 ` David Miller
2014-08-07 16:49 ` Zoltan Kiss
2014-08-08 5:29 ` David Miller
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