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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] qemu:virtio: Allow guest to defer VIRTIO_F_NOTIFY_ON_EMPTY
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:31:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49C3D2F1.2050305@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090319162118.24068.98794.stgit@kvm.aw>

Alex Williamson wrote:
> There may be cases where the guest does not want the avail queue
> interrupt, even when it's empty.  For the virtio-net case, the
> guest may use a different buffering scheme or decide polling for
> used buffers is more efficient.  This can be accomplished by simply
> checking for whether the guest has acknowledged the existing notify
> on empty flag.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
>   

Applied to trunk and stable.  Thanks.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>   

      reply	other threads:[~2009-03-20 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-19 16:21 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu:virtio: Allow guest to defer VIRTIO_F_NOTIFY_ON_EMPTY Alex Williamson
2009-03-20 17:31 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]

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