Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 10:26:37AM -0500, Brian King wrote: > >> 1. The add_inbuf interface passes an sg list. This causes problems for >> ibmveth since its rx buffers cannot be scatterlists. >>
I'm probably missing something. What is wrong with a scatterlist of length 1? >> 2. The user of this API does not have access to the sk_buf. This causes >> issues for ibmveth since it needs to reserve the first 8 bytes of the >> rx buffer for use by the firmware. It currently uses skb_reserve to do >> this. >> >> Would it be simpler to just pass an sk_buf rather than the scatterlist >> on these interfaces for virtio_net users? >> > > It probably should pass the sk_buff. But virtio is a generic layer that is useful for more than just networking. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
