Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762587AbZDBJmY (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2009 05:42:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759589AbZDBJmG (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2009 05:42:06 -0400 Received: from rhun.apana.org.au ([64.62.148.172]:52166 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757546AbZDBJmD (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2009 05:42:03 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 17:41:47 +0800 From: Herbert Xu To: Avi Kivity Cc: ghaskins@novell.com, anthony@codemonkey.ws, andi@firstfloor.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, agraf@suse.de, pmullaney@novell.com, pmorreale@novell.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/17] virtual-bus Message-ID: <20090402094147.GA30586@gondor.apana.org.au> References: <20090402085253.GA29932@gondor.apana.org.au> <49D47F11.6070400@redhat.com> <20090402091639.GA30126@gondor.apana.org.au> <49D484F5.2000400@redhat.com> <20090402092936.GA30333@gondor.apana.org.au> <49D487A6.407@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49D487A6.407@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 759 Lines: 20 On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 12:38:46PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > > Why does a kernel solution not need to know when a packet is transmitted? Because you can install your own destructor? I don't know what Greg did, but netback did that nasty page destructor hack which Jeremy is trying to undo :) Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/