netdev - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/4] [Net] Support Xen accelerated network plugin modules

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Message-ID: <fdaac4d50705210302q7533227bkfc302aa9cee901b5@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 21 May 2007 19:02:07 +0900
From:	"Jun Koi" <junkoi2004@...il.com>
To:	"Kieran Mansley" <kmansley@...arflare.com>
Cc:	xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com, muli@...ibm.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/4] [Net] Support Xen accelerated network plugin modules

On 5/18/07, Kieran Mansley <kmansley@...arflare.com> wrote:
> This is a repost of some earlier patches to the xen-devel mailing list,
> with a number of changes thanks to some useful suggestions from others.
> Apologies for the short delay in getting this next version ready.
>
> I've also CC'd netdev@...r.kernel.org as some of the files being patched
> may be merged into upstream linux soon, and so folks there may have
> opinions too.
>
> This set of patches provides the hooks and support necessary for
> accelerated network plugin modules to attach to Xen's netback and
> netfront.  These modules provide a fast path for network traffic where
> there is hardware support available for the netfront driver to send and
> receive packets directly to a NIC (such as those available from
> Solarflare).
>

Hi Kieran,

This is interesting. Just a question: is this possible for more than 1
domain to access directly to NIC, or at a time only 1 domain can do
that?

Thanks,
Jun
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