netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/5] VSOCK: support fill data to mergeable rx buffer in host

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Date:   Wed, 7 Nov 2018 21:32:42 +0800
From:   Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:     jiangyiwen <jiangyiwen@...wei.com>, stefanha@...hat.com,
        stefanha@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] VSOCK: support fill data to mergeable rx buffer in
 host


On 2018/11/7 下午3:11, jiangyiwen wrote:
> On 2018/11/7 14:18, Jason Wang wrote:
>> On 2018/11/6 下午2:30, jiangyiwen wrote:
>>>> Seems duplicated with the one used by vhost-net.
>>>>
>>>> In packed virtqueue implementation, I plan to move this to vhost.c.
>>>>
>>> Yes, this code is full copied from vhost-net, if it can be packed into
>>> vhost.c, it would be great.
>>>
>> If you try to reuse vhost-net, you don't even need to care about this:)
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> .
>>
> Hi Jason,
>
> Thank your advice, I will consider your idea. But I don't know
> what's stefan's suggestion? It seems that he doesn't care much
> about this community.:(


I think not. He is probably busy these days.


>
> I still hope this community can have some vitality.
>

Let's wait for few more days for the possible comments from Stefan or 
Michael. But I do prefer to unify the virtio networking datapath which 
will be easier to be extended and maintained.

Thanks