[Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 18/20] net/xen-netback: Make it running on 64KB page granularity

Julien Grall julien.grall at citrix.com
Tue Sep 8 04:07:31 PDT 2015


Hi Wei,

On 07/09/15 17:57, Wei Liu wrote:
> You might need to rebase you patch. A patch to netback went it recently.

Do you mean 210c34dcd8d912dcc740f1f17625a7293af5cb56 "xen-netback: add
support for multicast control"?

If so I didn't see any specific issue while rebasing on the latest
linus' master.

> On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 04:33:56PM +0100, 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 working as a
>> network backend 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.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall at citrix.com>
>>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2 at citrix.com>

Thank you!

Regards,

-- 
Julien Grall



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