From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>,
"Xie, Huawei" <huawei.xie@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] virtio: fix virtio_net_hdr desc pointing to the same buffer
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 13:44:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2070148.TLndilS6eD@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151214114732.GB29571@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com>
2015-12-14 19:47, Yuanhan Liu:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 10:32:24AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 2015-12-14 11:01, Yuanhan Liu:
> > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 12:07:32AM +0800, Huawei@dpdk.org wrote:
> > > > The virtio_net_hdr desc all pointed to the same buffer. It doesn't cause
> > > > issue because in the simple TX mode we don't use the header. This patch
> > > > makes the header desc point to different buffer.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Huawei Xie <huawei.xie@intel.com>
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
> >
> > Does it fix something in the current behaviour?
>
> It's more like a logic fixing to me.
>
> > I have the feeling it may wait for 2.3.
>
> It's been introduced in v2.2, with Huawei's simple tx patchset.
> Therefore, I guess 2.2 is good to go?
The vhost driver has been validated without with patch.
Merging it would be taking the risk of breaking something
(or just reduce performance) for no clear benefit.
Am I missing something?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-14 12:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-10 16:07 Huawei
2015-12-12 7:39 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2015-12-14 1:21 ` Xie, Huawei
2015-12-14 1:35 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2015-12-14 3:01 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-14 9:32 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-14 11:47 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-14 12:44 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2015-12-14 13:09 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-14 13:38 ` Xie, Huawei
2015-12-14 13:45 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-14 13:58 ` Xie, Huawei
2016-02-10 15:36 ` Bruce Richardson
2015-12-10 17:57 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] vhost: Fix various coverity issues in vhost library Huawei
2015-12-10 17:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] virtio: fix virtio_net_hdr desc pointing to the same buffer Huawei
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