From: Rusty Russell
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:50:04 +1030
> From: Shirley Ma
>
> virtio_net receives packets from its pre-allocated vring buffers, then it
> delivers these packets to upper layer protocols as skb buffs. So it's not
> necessary to pre-allocate skb for each mergable buffer, then
From: Rusty Russell
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:49:05 +1030
> From: Shirley Ma
>
> 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
From: Rusty Russell
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 09:57:06 +1030
> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:46:43 pm Rusty Russell wrote:
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>>Nice driver optimization from Shirley, but requires a new virtio hook.
>> Do you want to take both? I have nothing else overlapping it.
>
> Dave, any news on thi
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:46:43 pm Rusty Russell wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
>Nice driver optimization from Shirley, but requires a new virtio hook.
> Do you want to take both? I have nothing else overlapping it.
Dave, any news on this? Shirley, I note that your final commit message did
not contain th
