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      xen network backend driver · f942dc25
      Ian Campbell 提交于
      netback is the host side counterpart to the frontend driver in
      drivers/net/xen-netfront.c. The PV protocol is also implemented by
      frontend drivers in other OSes too, such as the BSDs and even Windows.
      
      The patch is based on the driver from the xen.git pvops kernel tree but
      has been put through the checkpatch.pl wringer plus several manual
      cleanup passes and review iterations. The driver has been moved from
      drivers/xen/netback to drivers/net/xen-netback.
      
      One major change from xen.git is that the guest transmit path (i.e. what
      looks like receive to netback) has been significantly reworked to remove
      the dependency on the out of tree PageForeign page flag (a core kernel
      patch which enables a per page destructor callback on the final
      put_page). This page flag was used in order to implement a grant map
      based transmit path (where guest pages are mapped directly into SKB
      frags). Instead this version of netback uses grant copy operations into
      regular memory belonging to the backend domain. Reinstating the grant
      map functionality is something which I would like to revisit in the
      future.
      
      Note that this driver depends on 2e820f58 "xen/irq: implement
      bind_interdomain_evtchn_to_irqhandler for backend drivers" which is in
      linux next via the "xen-two" tree and is intended for the 2.6.39 merge
      window:
              git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git stable/backends
      this branch has only that single commit since 2.6.38-rc2 and is safe for
      cross merging into the net branch.
      Signed-off-by: NIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
      Reviewed-by: NBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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