From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
To: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>,
Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: add drop_packets parameter to -net nic
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:40:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTik1GXp4D-TJAOXFmKYWuo1yMXs1ew@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1303697435-12542-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>
2011/4/25 Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>:
> Dropping packets is sometimes perferred behavior. Add drop_packets
> parameter to NICConf struct and let nic simulation decide how to use
> it.
>
> Only e1000 supports this for now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
> ---
> Documentation is missing, but I'm not even sure if there's any other
> user who finds this useful.
Can you explain why you are adding this? You are trying to bypass the
send queue and drop packets instead?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-25 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-25 2:10 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: add drop_packets parameter to -net nic Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2011-04-25 13:40 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2011-04-25 13:42 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-04-25 14:06 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-04-26 9:14 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-04-26 10:07 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
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