RE: [PATCH v12 12/17] Add mp(mediate passthru) device.
From: Xin, Xiaohui <hidden>
Date: 2010-10-18 08:32:10
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From: Xin, Xiaohui <hidden>
Date: 2010-10-18 08:32:10
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-----Original Message----- From: Michael S. Tsirkin [mailto:mst@redhat.com] Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2010 9:13 PM To: Xin, Xiaohui Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; kvm@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; mingo@elte.hu; davem@davemloft.net; herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au; jdike@linux.intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 12/17] Add mp(mediate passthru) device. On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:04:30PM +0800, xiaohui.xin@intel.com wrote:quoted
From: Xin Xiaohui <redacted> The patch add mp(mediate passthru) device, which now based on vhost-net backend driver and provides proto_ops to send/receive guest buffers data from/to guest vitio-net driver. Signed-off-by: Xin Xiaohui <redacted> Signed-off-by: Zhao Yu <redacted> Reviewed-by: Jeff Dike <redacted>So you plan to rewrite all this to make this code part of macvtap?
V13 exports functions which can be reused by macvtap to get zero-copy. Currently, I'm adding code in macvtap and trying to make it work. Thanks Xiaohui