RE: [Xen-devel] Xend loads slowly

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > 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.

Herbert Xu would be the man to do this in an upstream-friendly way :-)

Ian



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