- To: Santosh Jodh <Santosh.Jodh@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0001/001] xen: multi page ring support for block devices
- From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 11:16:06 +0000
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On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 21:49 +0000, Santosh Jodh wrote:
> From: Santosh Jodh <santosh.jodh@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Add support for multi page ring for block devices.
> The number of pages is configurable for blkback via module parameter.
> blkback reports max-ring-page-order to blkfront via xenstore.
> blkfront reports its supported ring-page-order to blkback via xenstore.
> blkfront reports multi page ring references via ring-refNN in xenstore.
> The change allows newer blkfront to work with older blkback and
> vice-versa.
> Based on original patch by Paul Durrant.
>
> Signed-off-by: Santosh Jodh <santosh.jodh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Doesn't the xenbus interface change deserve another patch (as
prerequisite for block devices change)? Or at least please mention the
change in commit message?
Wei.
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