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Message-ID: <20090403114828.GA10465@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 19:48:28 +0800
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>, ghaskins@...ell.com,
anthony@...emonkey.ws, andi@...stfloor.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, agraf@...e.de, pmullaney@...ell.com,
pmorreale@...ell.com, rusty@...tcorp.com.au,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/17] virtual-bus
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 02:46:04PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
> The host writes the packet to tap, at which point it is consumed from
> its point of view. The host would like to mention that if there was an
> API to notify it when the packet was actually consumed, then it would
> gladly use it. Bonus points if this involves not copying the packet.
We're using write(2) for this, no? That should invoke netif_rx_ni
which blocks until the packet is "processed", which usually means
that it's placed on the NIC's hardware queue.
Cheers,
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