Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754422Ab1FGQIb (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jun 2011 12:08:31 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:57907 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750941Ab1FGQI3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jun 2011 12:08:29 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 19:08:30 +0300 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Rusty Russell , Carsten Otte , Christian Borntraeger , linux390@de.ibm.com, Martin Schwidefsky , Heiko Carstens , Shirley Ma , lguest@lists.ozlabs.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Krishna Kumar , Tom Lendacky , steved@us.ibm.com, habanero@linux.vnet.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 RFC 0/4] virtio and vhost-net capacity handling Message-ID: <20110607160830.GB17581@redhat.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1888 Lines: 51 On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 06:42:35PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > OK, here's a new attempt to use the new capacity api. I also added more > comments to clarify the logic. Hope this is more readable. Let me know > pls. > > This is on top of the patches applied by Rusty. > > Warning: untested. Posting now to give people chance to > comment on the API. OK, this seems to have survived some testing so far, after I dropped patch 4 and fixed build for patch 3 (build fixup patch sent in reply to the original). I'll be mostly offline until Sunday, would appreciate testing reports. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost.git virtio-net-xmit-polling-v2 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/qemu-kvm.git virtio-net-event-idx-v3 Thanks! > Changes from v1: > - fix comment in patch 2 to correct confusion noted by Rusty > - rewrite patch 3 along the lines suggested by Rusty > note: it's not exactly the same but I hope it's close > enough, the main difference is that mine does limited > polling even in the unlikely xmit failure case. > - added a patch to not return capacity from add_buf > it always looked like a weird hack > > Michael S. Tsirkin (4): > virtio_ring: add capacity check API > virtio_net: fix tx capacity checks using new API > virtio_net: limit xmit polling > Revert "virtio: make add_buf return capacity remaining: > > drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 111 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- > drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 10 +++- > include/linux/virtio.h | 7 ++- > 3 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-) > > -- > 1.7.5.53.gc233e -- 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/