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[Xen-devel] [SPAM] Re: [PATCH v6] xen network backend driver
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[Xen-devel] [SPAM] Re: [PATCH v6] xen network backend driver |
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Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:38:55 -0700 (PDT) |
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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:06:18 +0000
> netback is the host side counterpart to the frontend driver in
> drivers/net/xen-netfront.c. The PV protocol is also implemented by
> frontend drivers in other OSes too, such as the BSDs and even Windows.
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> The patch is based on the driver from the xen.git pvops kernel tree but
> has been put through the checkpatch.pl wringer plus several manual
> cleanup passes and review iterations. The driver has been moved from
> drivers/xen/netback to drivers/net/xen-netback.
>
> One major change from xen.git is that the guest transmit path (i.e. what
> looks like receive to netback) has been significantly reworked to remove
> the dependency on the out of tree PageForeign page flag (a core kernel
> patch which enables a per page destructor callback on the final
> put_page). This page flag was used in order to implement a grant map
> based transmit path (where guest pages are mapped directly into SKB
> frags). Instead this version of netback uses grant copy operations into
> regular memory belonging to the backend domain. Reinstating the grant
> map functionality is something which I would like to revisit in the
> future.
>
> Note that this driver depends on 2e820f58f7ad "xen/irq: implement
> bind_interdomain_evtchn_to_irqhandler for backend drivers" which is in
> linux next via the "xen-two" tree and is intended for the 2.6.39 merge
> window:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git
> stable/backends
> this branch has only that single commit since 2.6.38-rc2 and is safe for
> cross merging into the net branch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Ok, I merged that xen commit into my tree and then added this
driver.
Thanks.
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