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Re: [Xen-devel] RE: VMQ support in pvops Netchannel2?
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> |
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Re: [Xen-devel] RE: VMQ support in pvops Netchannel2? |
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Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:20:04 +0100 |
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Steven Smith <Steven.Smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Williams, Mitch A" <mitch.a.williams@xxxxxxxxx>, "Santos, Jose Renato G" <joserenato.santos@xxxxxx> |
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On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 23:56 +0100, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 07/24/2010 10:18 PM, Santos, Jose Renato G wrote:
> > Pasi
> >
> > Sorry for the delay in responding.
> > My email filter stored your message on my folder for xen-devel which I am
> > not reading very often recently.
> >
> > The latest version of netchannel2 I worked on was on Steven's nc2-2.6.27
> > kernel tree.
> > That version does not have VMDq support since the Intel ixgbe driver in
> > 2.6.27 does not have VMDq support.
> > I am not sure what is Jeremy's plan to port that code to pvops.
> > But I think that is the first step. After that we can work on getting VMDq
> > support with Mitch's help.
> > So I think Jeremy is probably the best person to give you an update on the
> > plan to merge netechannel2 code into pvops.
>
> I'm not keen on carrying the nc2 codebase in its current state since it
> is largely unmaintained, far from upstreamable and I haven't seen any
> real demand for it.
IMHO creating a second complete PV network infrastructure is a big
mistake from both a usability and on going maintenance point of view.
There is no fundamental reason why the key features of nc2 could not be
implemented as optional features of the existing front/back drivers,
negotiated via xenstore.
Ian.
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