RE: [PATCH v12 12/17] Add mp(mediate passthru) device.

[Xin, Xiaohui]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael S. Tsirkin [mailto:mst@xxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2010 9:13 PM
>To: Xin, Xiaohui
>Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
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>Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 12/17] Add mp(mediate passthru) device.
>
>On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:04:30PM +0800, xiaohui.xin@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> From: Xin Xiaohui <xiaohui.xin@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> 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 <xiaohui.xin@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Zhao Yu <yzhao81new@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Reviewed-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>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
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