From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Dunlap Subject: Re: Xen 4.3 development update, 15 Oct Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:39:35 +0100 Message-ID: <507E8AE7.8070106@eu.citrix.com> References: <20121016144537.GA10883@phenom.dumpdata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20121016144537.GA10883@phenom.dumpdata.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: "annie.li@oracle.com" , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 16/10/12 15:45, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >> * Multi-page net protocol (external) >> owner: ijc@citrix or annie.li@oracle >> status: Initial patches posted (by Wei Liu) >> expand the network ring protocol to allow multiple pages for >> increased throughput > We are cleaning them up to get Ian's input. There are .. many things > here for this TODO - there is the feature persistent grant which gives a big > performance boost. Then there is the Wei Liu patches which need > some rework (they were RFC). The persistent grant (which is what > Annie is working on right now) nicely fit on top of Wei Liu's, but since > they (the RFC patches - which split the netback into per-vif threads) > are not yet ready - annie is looking to see if she can do some lookup > using the old netback mechanism. OK, so it sounds like you're actually giving an update on the persistent grants...? -George