Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 3/6] netback: switch to NAPI + kthread model

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 18:21 +0000, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 13/01/12 16:59, Wei Liu wrote:
> > This patch implements 1:1 model netback. We utilizes NAPI and kthread
> > to do the weight-lifting job:
> > 
> >   - NAPI is used for guest side TX (host side RX)
> >   - kthread is used for guest side RX (host side TX)
> > 
> > This model provides better scheduling fairness among vifs. It also
> > lays the foundation for future work.
> > 
> > The major defect for the current implementation is that in the NAPI
> > poll handler we don't actually disable interrupt. Xen stuff is
> > different from real hardware, it requires some other tuning of ring
> > macros.
> 
> RING_FINAL_CHECK_FOR_REQUESTS() looks it does the correct thing to me.
> 
> David

I need to stop the other end from generating events, so
RING_FINAL_CHECK_FOR_REQUESTS is not the right answer I think.


Wei.

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