Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 1/1] public/io/netif.h: add gref mapping control messages

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 08:23:20AM +0000, Paul Durrant wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joao Martins [mailto:joao.m.martins@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 19 September 2017 20:08
> > To: Xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>; Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>;
> > Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>; Joao Martins
> > <joao.m.martins@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [PATCH v4 1/1] public/io/netif.h: add gref mapping control messages
> > 
> > Adds 3 messages to allow guest to let backend keep grants mapped,
> > such that 1) guests allowing fast recycling of pages can avoid doing
> > grant ops for those cases, or otherwise 2) preferring copies over
> > grants and 3) always using a fixed set of pages for network I/O.
> > 
> > The three control ring messages added are:
> >  - Add grefs to be mapped by backend
> >  - Remove grefs mappings (If they are not in use)
> >  - Get maximum amount of grefs kept mapped.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I think the text is clear enough now. Now for the netfront/netback patches :-)
> 
> Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>

Joao, would you be OK reposting this along with an patch that drops
the pandoc document in docs/misc? Feel free to add my Reviewed-by as
I see that you already removed the mention of 'RFC' from it.

Thank you.

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