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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	<xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 net-next 2/7] xen-netback: retire guest rx side prefix GSO feature
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 11:14:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a5153c34-f60c-6893-f2b8-8647ad00c9a6@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1475573358-32414-3-git-send-email-paul.durrant@citrix.com>

On 04/10/16 10:29, Paul Durrant wrote:
> As far as I am aware only very old Windows network frontends make use of
> this style of passing GSO packets from backend to frontend. These
> frontends can easily be replaced by the freely available Xen Project
> Windows PV network frontend, which uses the 'default' mechanism for
> passing GSO packets, which is also used by all Linux frontends.
> 
> NOTE: Removal of this feature will not cause breakage in old Windows
>       frontends. They simply will no longer receive GSO packets - the
>       packets instead being fragmented in the backend.

Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>

David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-04 10:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-04  9:29 [PATCH v2 net-next 0/7] xen-netback: guest rx side refactor Paul Durrant
2016-10-04  9:29 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 1/7] xen-netback: separate guest side rx code into separate module Paul Durrant
2016-10-04  9:29 ` Paul Durrant
2016-10-04  9:29 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 2/7] xen-netback: retire guest rx side prefix GSO feature Paul Durrant
2016-10-04 10:14   ` David Vrabel
2016-10-04 10:14   ` David Vrabel [this message]
2016-10-04 12:52   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-10-04 12:52   ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-10-04 13:35     ` Paul Durrant
2016-10-04 13:35     ` [Xen-devel] " Paul Durrant
2016-10-04 14:24       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-10-04 14:24       ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-10-05 15:30         ` Roger Pau Monné
2016-10-05 15:30         ` [Xen-devel] " Roger Pau Monné
2016-10-05 15:40           ` Manuel Bouyer
2016-10-04  9:29 ` Paul Durrant
2016-10-04  9:29 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 3/7] xen-netback: refactor guest rx Paul Durrant
2016-10-04  9:29 ` Paul Durrant
2016-10-04  9:29 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 4/7] xen-netback: immediately wake tx queue when guest rx queue has space Paul Durrant
2016-10-04  9:29 ` Paul Durrant
2016-10-04 12:48   ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-10-04 13:56     ` Paul Durrant
2016-10-04 13:56     ` Paul Durrant
2016-10-04 12:48   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-10-04  9:29 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 5/7] xen-netback: process guest rx packets in batches Paul Durrant
2016-10-04 12:47   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-10-04 12:47   ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-10-04 14:02     ` Paul Durrant
2016-10-04 14:02     ` [Xen-devel] " Paul Durrant
2016-10-04 14:51     ` David Vrabel
2016-10-04 14:51     ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2016-10-04  9:29 ` Paul Durrant
2016-10-04  9:29 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 6/7] xen-netback: batch copies for multiple to-guest rx packets Paul Durrant
2016-10-04  9:29 ` Paul Durrant
2016-10-04  9:29 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 7/7] xen/netback: add fraglist support for to-guest rx Paul Durrant
2016-10-04 10:56   ` David Vrabel
2016-10-04 10:56   ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2016-10-04  9:29 ` Paul Durrant
2016-10-07  0:38 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 0/7] xen-netback: guest rx side refactor David Miller
2016-10-07  0:38 ` David Miller

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