Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 1/1] public/io/netif.h: add gref mapping control messages

2017-09-18 Thread Joao Martins
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 12:11:04PM +, Paul Durrant wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Joao Martins [mailto:joao.m.mart...@oracle.com] > > Sent: 18 September 2017 12:56 > > To: Paul Durrant > > Cc: Xen-devel ; Wei Liu ; > > Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] pub

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 1/1] public/io/netif.h: add gref mapping control messages

2017-09-18 Thread Paul Durrant
> -Original Message- > From: Joao Martins [mailto:joao.m.mart...@oracle.com] > Sent: 18 September 2017 12:56 > To: Paul Durrant > Cc: Xen-devel ; Wei Liu ; > Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk > Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] public/io/netif.h: add gref mapping control > messages > > On Mon, Sep 18, 201

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 1/1] public/io/netif.h: add gref mapping control messages

2017-09-18 Thread Joao Martins
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 09:53:18AM +, Paul Durrant wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Joao Martins [mailto:joao.m.mart...@oracle.com] > > Sent: 13 September 2017 19:11 > > To: Xen-devel > > Cc: Wei Liu ; Paul Durrant ; > > Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk ; Joao Martins > > > > Subject: [PA

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 1/1] public/io/netif.h: add gref mapping control messages

2017-09-18 Thread Paul Durrant
> -Original Message- > From: Joao Martins [mailto:joao.m.mart...@oracle.com] > Sent: 13 September 2017 19:11 > To: Xen-devel > Cc: Wei Liu ; Paul Durrant ; > Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk ; Joao Martins > > Subject: [PATCH v3 1/1] public/io/netif.h: add gref mapping control messages > > Adds 3 m

[Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 1/1] public/io/netif.h: add gref mapping control messages

2017-09-13 Thread Joao Martins
Adds 3 messages to allow guest to let backend keep grants mapped, such that 1) guests allowing fast recycling of pages can avoid doing grant ops for those cases, or otherwise 2) preferring copies over grants and 3) always using a fixed set of pages for network I/O. The three control ring messages