WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-devel

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Register watches for frontend features.

To: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Register watches for frontend features.
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:30:47 -0700
Cc: Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ian, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Delivery-date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:33:59 -0700
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <291EDFCB1E9E224A99088639C47620227A476E6810@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
List-help: <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
References: <1278329973-12414-1-git-send-email-paul.durrant@xxxxxxxxxx> <4C34C320.2010102@xxxxxxxx> <291EDFCB1E9E224A99088639C47620227A476E6810@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100621 Fedora/3.0.5-1.fc13 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0.5
On 07/09/2010 05:53 AM, Paul Durrant wrote:
> Realistically, with a Windows frontend, the only ones that are going to 
> change dynamically are gso_prefix and csum. I can 'de-watch' the others, if 
> you'd prefer.
> As for locking, it's not clear to me how fatal getting 
> netbk_max_required_rx_slots wrong is. However, losing or gaining 
> gso/gso_prefix part way through a receive is not going to be good so I thing 
> some double buffering is probably called for. I'll re-work the patch 
> accordingly.
>   

Yes.  Given that those are guest-controlled, dom0 needs to be very
careful in how it handles them.

    J

_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>