Re: [Xen-devel] xennet: skb rides the rocket: 20 slots

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 14:05 +0000, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> Monday, January 7, 2013, 2:27:50 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 12:30 +0000, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> >> Monday, January 7, 2013, 11:55:15 AM, you wrote:
> >> 
> >> > On Fri, 2013-01-04 at 16:28 +0000, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> >> >> Hi Ian,
> >> 
> >> > I'm not actually the netfront maintainer. Adding Konrad. Annie too since
> >> > IIRC she was at one point looking at various buffer coalescing schemes.
> >> 
> >> Ah ok, i thought you were :-) sorry
> 
> > I'm netback ;-)
> 
> Ah i thought of front and back as sides of the same coin :-p

IMHO Having them be somewhat separate encourages greater transparency
when evolving the protocol. Not least because there are other front and
backends other than just the Linux ones.

> >> >> Today i fired up an old VM with a bittorrent client, trying to
> >> >> download some torrents.
> >> 
> >> > How old? Which kernel?
> >> 
> >> 3.8.0-rc2 at the moment, it's a PV guest.
> 
> > Are you sure? That's pretty new, not old.
> 
> Yes i'm sure, with old i meant not booted for some time.
> All my PV guests use the same from a dom0 supplied kernel, which at the 
> moment happens to be the same as dom0's too.

AH, I see. I assumed you meant old kernel.

> 
> 
> > Ian.
> 
> 
> 



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