On (Thu) Dec 17 2009 [23:43:50], Shirley Ma wrote:
There's currently no way for a virtio driver to ask for unused
buffers, so it has to keep a list itself to reclaim them at shutdown.
This is redundant, since virtio_ring stores that information. So
add a new hook to do this: virtio_net will
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:43:50PM -0800, Shirley Ma wrote:
There's currently no way for a virtio driver to ask for unused
buffers, so it has to keep a list itself to reclaim them at shutdown.
This is redundant, since virtio_ring stores that information. So
add a new hook to do this:
There's currently no way for a virtio driver to ask for unused
buffers, so it has to keep a list itself to reclaim them at shutdown.
This is redundant, since virtio_ring stores that information. So
add a new hook to do this: virtio_net will be the first user.
Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma