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  • Wei Liu's avatar
    xen-netback: switch to NAPI + kthread 1:1 model · b3f980bd
    Wei Liu authored Aug 26, 2013
    
    
    This patch implements 1:1 model netback. NAPI and kthread are utilized
    to do the weight-lifting job:
    
    - NAPI is used for guest side TX (host side RX)
    - kthread is used for guest side RX (host side TX)
    
    Xenvif and xen_netbk are made into one structure to reduce code size.
    
    This model provides better scheduling fairness among vifs. It is also
    prerequisite for implementing multiqueue for Xen netback.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    b3f980bd