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authorIan Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>2011-03-15 00:06:18 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-03-15 19:38:03 -0700
commitf942dc2552b8bfdee607be867b12a8971bb9cd85 (patch)
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xen network backend driver
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 2e820f58f7ad "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: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/drivers/net/Makefile b/drivers/net/Makefile
index 7c2171179f97..01b604ad155e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/net/Makefile
@@ -172,6 +172,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SLIP) += slip.o
obj-$(CONFIG_SLHC) += slhc.o
obj-$(CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND) += xen-netfront.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND) += xen-netback/
obj-$(CONFIG_DUMMY) += dummy.o
obj-$(CONFIG_IFB) += ifb.o