[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] e1000: clear EOP for multi-buffer descriptors

2011-02-07 Thread Juan Quintela
"Michael S. Tsirkin" wrote: > The e1000 spec says: if software statically allocates > buffers, and uses memory read to check for completed descriptors, it > simply has to zero the status byte in the descriptor to make it ready > for reuse by hardware. This is not a hardware requirement (moving the

[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] e1000: clear EOP for multi-buffer descriptors

2011-02-07 Thread Alex Williamson
On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 14:30 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > The e1000 spec says: if software statically allocates > buffers, and uses memory read to check for completed descriptors, it > simply has to zero the status byte in the descriptor to make it ready > for reuse by hardware. This is not a

[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] e1000: clear EOP for multi-buffer descriptors

2011-02-07 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 02:30:26PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > The e1000 spec says: if software statically allocates > buffers, and uses memory read to check for completed descriptors, it > simply has to zero the status byte in the descriptor to make it ready > for reuse by hardware. This is

[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] e1000: clear EOP for multi-buffer descriptors

2011-02-07 Thread Alex Williamson
On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 14:30 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > The e1000 spec says: if software statically allocates > buffers, and uses memory read to check for completed descriptors, it > simply has to zero the status byte in the descriptor to make it ready > for reuse by hardware. This is not a