netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH 00/17] virtual-bus

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Message-ID: <20090403111242.GA10200@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Fri, 3 Apr 2009 19:12:42 +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 02:03:45PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
> If the host is able to consume a request immediately, and the guest is  
> not able to batch requests, this breaks down.  And that is the current  
> situation.

Hang on, why is the host consuming the request immediately? It
has to write the packet to tap, which then calls netif_rx_ni so
it should actually go all the way, no?

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