RE: [PATCH v11 00/17] Provide a zero-copy method on KVM virtio-net.

2010-09-27 Thread Xin, Xiaohui
@vger.kernel.org; >mi...@elte.hu; da...@davemloft.net; herb...@gondor.hengli.com.au; >jd...@linux.intel.com >Subject: RE: [PATCH v11 00/17] Provide a zero-copy method on KVM virtio-net. > >>From: Michael S. Tsirkin [mailto:m...@redhat.com] >>Sent: Monday, September

RE: [PATCH v11 00/17] Provide a zero-copy method on KVM virtio-net.

2010-09-26 Thread Xin, Xiaohui
l.com >Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 00/17] Provide a zero-copy method on KVM virtio-net. > >On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 12:27:18PM +0800, xiaohui@intel.com wrote: >> We provide an zero-copy method which driver side may get external >> buffers to DMA. Here external means driver don't

Re: [PATCH v11 00/17] Provide a zero-copy method on KVM virtio-net.

2010-09-26 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 12:27:18PM +0800, xiaohui@intel.com wrote: > We provide an zero-copy method which driver side may get external > buffers to DMA. Here external means driver don't use kernel space > to allocate skb buffers. Currently the external buffer can be from > guest virtio-net driv

[PATCH v11 00/17] Provide a zero-copy method on KVM virtio-net.

2010-09-24 Thread xiaohui . xin
We provide an zero-copy method which driver side may get external buffers to DMA. Here external means driver don't use kernel space to allocate skb buffers. Currently the external buffer can be from guest virtio-net driver. The idea is simple, just to pin the guest VM user space and then let host