linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 18/20] net/xen-netback: Make it running on 64KB page granularity

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Message-ID: <55EEC173.6020606@citrix.com>
Date:	Tue, 8 Sep 2015 12:07:31 +0100
From:	Julien Grall <julien.grall@...rix.com>
To:	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>
CC:	<ian.campbell@...rix.com>, <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 18/20] net/xen-netback: Make it running
 on 64KB page granularity

Hi Wei,

On 07/09/15 17:57, Wei Liu wrote:
> You might need to rebase you patch. A patch to netback went it recently.

Do you mean 210c34dcd8d912dcc740f1f17625a7293af5cb56 "xen-netback: add
support for multicast control"?

If so I didn't see any specific issue while rebasing on the latest
linus' master.

> On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 04:33:56PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
>> The PV network protocol is using 4KB page granularity. The goal of this
>> patch is to allow a Linux using 64KB page granularity working as a
>> network backend on a non-modified Xen.
>>
>> It's only necessary to adapt the ring size and break skb data in small
>> chunk of 4KB. The rest of the code is relying on the grant table code.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@...rix.com>
>>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>

Thank you!

Regards,

-- 
Julien Grall
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