[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] Xend loads slowly
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 03:38:25PM +0000, Keir Fraser wrote: > On 25/1/07 14:13, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Is there any work scheduled on the Xen roadmap yet to remove the need to > > use netloop driver in Dom0 ? It would be very desirable to eliminate the > > complicated peth0/eth0/vif0 interface renaming/duplication for Dom0 so that > > the regular OS distro provided networking scripts 'just work' with Xen. So > > if people wanted a bridged setup they can simply create their regular > > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br0 (or equivalant) - so XenD would > > only need to worry about the vif-* scripts, and we can kill off network-* > > scripts. > > You can set things up today without the loopback. But if domU<->dom0 traffic > is allowed then you can end up with all domU tx slots tied up in dom0 socket > buffers for unbounded time. If domU<->dom0 traffic is disallowed, or just > not done, then the loopback serves no other purpose. Yes, I was specifically thinking about the ideas that have been brought up every now & then about fixing the netback side of things to avoid the dom0 socket buffers being pinned indefinitely. So we can safely have the DomU <-> Dom0 traffic without needing netloop. Regar,ds Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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