From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>
Cc: 'Joao Martins' <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>,
Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] public/io/netif.h: add gref mapping control messages
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 13:59:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170929175903.GF3961@char.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <104f4b493b7c428b974bdf3e1ad96b3e@AMSPEX02CL03.citrite.net>
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 08:23:20AM +0000, Paul Durrant wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joao Martins [mailto:joao.m.martins@oracle.com]
> > Sent: 19 September 2017 20:08
> > To: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
> > Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>; Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>;
> > Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>; Joao Martins
> > <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
> > Subject: [PATCH v4 1/1] public/io/netif.h: add gref mapping control messages
> >
> > Adds 3 messages to allow guest to let backend keep grants mapped,
> > such that 1) guests allowing fast recycling of pages can avoid doing
> > grant ops for those cases, or otherwise 2) preferring copies over
> > grants and 3) always using a fixed set of pages for network I/O.
> >
> > The three control ring messages added are:
> > - Add grefs to be mapped by backend
> > - Remove grefs mappings (If they are not in use)
> > - Get maximum amount of grefs kept mapped.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
>
> I think the text is clear enough now. Now for the netfront/netback patches :-)
>
> Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Joao, would you be OK reposting this along with an patch that drops
the pandoc document in docs/misc? Feel free to add my Reviewed-by as
I see that you already removed the mention of 'RFC' from it.
Thank you.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-19 19:08 [PATCH v4 0/1] netif: staging grants for I/O requests Joao Martins
2017-09-19 19:08 ` [PATCH v4 1/1] public/io/netif.h: add gref mapping control messages Joao Martins
2017-09-20 8:23 ` Paul Durrant
2017-09-29 17:59 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
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