Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 May 2008 09:40:05 +0300 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] virtio_net: free transmit skbs in a timer |
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Rusty Russell wrote: > 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. >
That's what the feature bits are for.
-- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
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