Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] virtio_net: free transmit skbs in a timer | Date | Fri, 16 May 2008 09:25:17 +1000 |
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On Friday 16 May 2008 01:32:47 Avi Kivity wrote: > Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > I think Rusty is speaking from the POV of the guest driver - i.e. that > > virtio_net should never disable notifications on the xmit queue using > > disable_cb()? > > > > Sounds like you think agree, but that the host side should throttle the > > rate of xmit notifications? > > Yes.
But performance is going to suck in the meantime, as currently our host doesn't do this.
Rusty.
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