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From: annie li <annie.li@oracle•com>
To: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix•com>
Cc: Matt Wilson <msw@linux•com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix•com>,
	xen-devel@lists•xen.org,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle•com>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle•com>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix•com>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, msw@amazon•com
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] xen-netback: count number required slots for an skb more carefully
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 16:06:51 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5226EA1B.1030303@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130904073857.GI14104@zion.uk.xensource.com>


On 2013-9-4 15:38, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 02:56:20PM +0800, annie li wrote:
>> On 2013-9-4 14:04, Matt Wilson wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 10:25:59AM +0800, annie li wrote:
>>>> On 2013-9-4 5:53, Wei Liu wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>>> Matt, do you fancy sending the final version? IIRC the commit message
>>>>> needs to be re-written. I personally still prefer Matt's solution as
>>>>> it a) make efficient use of the ring, b) uses ring pointers to
>>>>> calculate slots which is most accurate, c) removes the dependence on
>>>>> MAX_SKB_FRAGS in guest RX path.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, we should get this fixed ASAP.
>>>> Totally agree. This issue is easy to be reproduced with large MTU.
>>>> It is better to upstream the fix soon in case others hit it and
>>>> waste time to fix it.
>>> I'd like to go with Xi's proposed patch that I posed earlier. The main
>>> thing that's kept me from sending a final version is lack of time to
>>> retest against a newer kernel.
>>>
>>> Could someone help out with that? I probably can't get to it until the
>>> end of the week.
>> I can rebase it. Since wei's NAPI &1:1 model patch went into
>> net-next already, it should not be able to applied directly.
>>
> I think this one should go to net then queue up for stable, not
> net-next.
If so, that would be easier. It is almost end of the day here, and I do 
not have enough time to test it until tomorrow. Please go ahead with it 
if you have time.

Thanks
Annie
> Wei.
>
>> Thanks
>> Annie
>>> Sorry for the delay. :-(
>>>
>>> --msw

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-04  8:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-03 17:29 [PATCH] xen-netback: count number required slots for an skb more carefully David Vrabel
2013-09-03 21:53 ` Wei Liu
2013-09-04  2:25   ` annie li
2013-09-04  6:04     ` Matt Wilson
2013-09-04  6:56       ` [Xen-devel] " annie li
2013-09-04  7:38         ` Wei Liu
2013-09-04  8:06           ` annie li [this message]
2013-09-04  8:20             ` Wei Liu
2013-09-04  8:36       ` Ian Campbell
2013-09-04  8:41         ` Wei Liu
2013-09-04 11:48   ` [PATCH] " David Vrabel
2013-09-04 12:41     ` Ian Campbell
2013-09-04 13:35       ` Wei Liu
2013-09-09  9:20       ` Wei Liu
2013-09-04 13:14     ` Wei Liu
2013-09-04 14:02       ` David Vrabel
2013-09-04 15:44         ` Wei Liu
2013-09-05 10:12           ` David Vrabel
2013-09-05 10:27             ` Wei Liu
2013-09-04 18:48 ` David Miller
2013-09-05  7:35   ` Ian Campbell

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