Re: [RFCv2 00/12] Introduce host-side virtio queue and CAIF Virtio.

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Thu Jan 10 2013 - 06:07:16 EST


On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 09:00:55PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Not sure why vring/net doesn't built a packet and feed it in
> netif_rx_ni(). This is what tun seems to do, and with this code it
> should be fairly optimal.

Because we want to use NAPI.

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