From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: annie.li@oracle.com, konrad.wilk@oracle.com,
Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
ian.campbell@citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] xen-netback: switch to NAPI + kthread 1:1 model
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 14:40:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130528134056.GD4394@zion.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51A4B32E.9040408@citrix.com>
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 02:37:50PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 27/05/13 12:29, Wei Liu wrote:
> > This patch implements 1:1 model netback. NAPI and kthread are utilized
> > to do the weight-lifting job:
> >
> > - NAPI is used for guest side TX (host side RX)
> > - kthread is used for guest side RX (host side TX)
>
> Should this be split into two patches?
>
In fact the original model uses kthread for both TX and RX. This patch
just splits some functionality to NAPI. So I don't think this needs to
be two patches.
Wei.
> David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-28 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-27 11:29 [PATCH 0/3 V2] xen-netback: switch to NAPI + kthread 1:1 model Wei Liu
2013-05-27 11:29 ` [PATCH 1/3] xen-netback: remove page tracking facility Wei Liu
2013-05-28 9:21 ` David Vrabel
2013-05-29 1:43 ` Matt Wilson
2013-05-29 8:12 ` Wei Liu
2013-05-27 11:29 ` [PATCH 2/3] xen-netback: switch to per-cpu scratch space Wei Liu
2013-05-28 9:47 ` annie li
2013-05-28 10:17 ` Wei Liu
2013-05-28 13:18 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-05-28 13:36 ` David Vrabel
2013-05-28 13:54 ` Wei Liu
2013-05-27 11:29 ` [PATCH 3/3] xen-netback: switch to NAPI + kthread 1:1 model Wei Liu
2013-05-28 13:37 ` David Vrabel
2013-05-28 13:40 ` Wei Liu [this message]
2013-05-28 14:35 ` [PATCH 0/3 V2] " annie li
2013-05-28 15:09 ` Wei Liu
2013-06-11 10:06 ` David Vrabel
2013-06-11 10:15 ` Wei Liu
2013-06-12 13:44 ` Andrew Bennieston
2013-06-13 9:01 ` Wei Liu
2013-06-13 11:18 ` Andrew Bennieston
2013-06-13 13:06 ` Wei Liu
2013-07-03 12:45 ` Andrew Bennieston
2013-07-03 16:07 ` Wei Liu
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