Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 19:12:42 +0800
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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       anthony@codemonkey.ws, andi@firstfloor.org,
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       pmorreale@novell.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/17] virtual-bus
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On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 02:03:45PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
> If the host is able to consume a request immediately, and the guest is  
> not able to batch requests, this breaks down.  And that is the current  
> situation.

Hang on, why is the host consuming the request immediately? It
has to write the packet to tap, which then calls netif_rx_ni so
it should actually go all the way, no?

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