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Message-ID: <20100306091849.0e5d2a66@s6510>
Date:	Sat, 6 Mar 2010 09:18:49 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	xiaohui.xin@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, mst@...hat.com,
	jdike@...user-mode-linux.org, Zhao Yu <yzhao81@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] Let host NIC driver to DMA to guest user space.

On Sat,  6 Mar 2010 17:38:38 +0800
xiaohui.xin@...el.com wrote:

> From: Xin Xiaohui <xiaohui.xin@...el.com>
> 
> The patch let host NIC driver to receive user space skb,
> then the driver has chance to directly DMA to guest user
> space buffers thru single ethX interface.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xin Xiaohui <xiaohui.xin@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Zhao Yu <yzhao81@...il.com>
> Sigend-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@...user-mode-linux.org>
> ---
>  include/linux/netdevice.h |   76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  include/linux/skbuff.h    |   30 +++++++++++++++--
>  net/core/dev.c            |   32 ++++++++++++++++++
>  net/core/skbuff.c         |   79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  4 files changed, 205 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 

There are too many ifdef's in this implementation.
I would prefer to see a few functions (with stub for the non-ifdef case),
like the network namespace code.
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