Rusty Russell wrote:
> OK. And since the current situation is that the host doesn't throttle, the
> feature bit should be "don't throttle, host is doing it for you", and Mark's
> patch should go in...
>
Yes.
We should have thought of this before, though, especially as Xen does
this or something very similar:
> /* Shared ring page */ \
> struct __name##_sring { \
> RING_IDX req_prod, req_event; \
> RING_IDX rsp_prod, rsp_event; \
> uint8_t pad[48]; \
> union __name##_sring_entry ring[1]; /* variable-length */ \
> }; \
req_event and rsp_event allow the other side to indicate when it wants a
notification.
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