On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 02:46:04PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > > The host writes the packet to tap, at which point it is consumed from > its point of view. The host would like to mention that if there was an > API to notify it when the packet was actually consumed, then it would > gladly use it. Bonus points if this involves not copying the packet.
We're using write(2) for this, no? That should invoke netif_rx_ni which blocks until the packet is "processed", which usually means that it's placed on the NIC's hardware queue. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[email protected]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
