[Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 17/20] net/xen-netfront: Make it running on 64KB page granularity

David Vrabel david.vrabel at citrix.com
Thu Aug 20 03:03:50 PDT 2015


On 07/08/15 17:46, Julien Grall wrote:
> The PV network protocol is using 4KB page granularity. The goal of this
> patch is to allow a Linux using 64KB page granularity using network
> device on a non-modified Xen.
> 
> It's only necessary to adapt the ring size and break skb data in small
> chunk of 4KB. The rest of the code is relying on the grant table code.
> 
> Note that we allocate a Linux page for each rx skb but only the first
> 4KB is used. We may improve the memory usage by extending the size of
> the rx skb.

Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel at citrix.com>

David



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