Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756680Ab0GNRVT (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:21:19 -0400 Received: from smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com ([65.115.85.73]:23575 "EHLO smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752511Ab0GNRVR convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:21:17 -0400 From: Pankaj Thakkar To: Greg KH , Shreyas Bhatewara CC: Christoph Hellwig , Stephen Hemminger , "pv-drivers@vmware.com" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org" Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:18:22 -0700 Subject: RE: [Pv-drivers] RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for vmxnet3 Thread-Topic: [Pv-drivers] RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for vmxnet3 Thread-Index: AcsjOc9rOplIY5g0T3aQ3R9ceXoDTQAPsB7X Message-ID: References: <20100504230225.GP8323@vmware.com> <201005051029.42052.dtor@vmware.com> <20100505173120.GA1752@infradead.org> <201005051035.29831.dtor@vmware.com> <20100505173951.GA8388@infradead.org> <20100505105253.0a8bc465@nehalam> <20100506202113.GC17922@infradead.org> <1278990388.32650.22.camel@eng-rhel5-64>,<20100714094952.GA16209@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20100714094952.GA16209@kroah.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1237 Lines: 24 The plugin is guest agnostic and hence we did not want to rely on any kernel provided functions. The plugin uses only the interface provided by the shell. The assumption is that since the plugin is really simple and straight forward (all the control/init complexity lies in the PF driver in the hypervisor) we should be able to get by for most of the things and for things like memcpy/memset the plugin can write simple functions like this. -p ________________________________________ From: Greg KH [greg@kroah.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 2:49 AM To: Shreyas Bhatewara Cc: Christoph Hellwig; Stephen Hemminger; Pankaj Thakkar; pv-drivers@vmware.com; netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [Pv-drivers] RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for vmxnet3 Is there some reason that our in-kernel functions that do this type of logic are not working for you to require you to reimplement this? thanks, greg k-h-- 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/