Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] e1000 emulation code

[Dor L. <dor...@gm...>]

andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 09/01/2008, Dor Laor <dor...@gm...> wrote:
>   
>> It which supports TCP/UDP and IP transmit checksum, as well as TSO.
>> It has been tested with Linux (2.6.18|22|23|24)++ and Windows XP (using
>> the driver supplied at the intel download site).
>> Windows Vista recognizes it but there is no traffic.
>>
>> Checksum calculation is currently naïve and unoptimized (the host
>> kernel does it better). But when working in conjuction to tso
>> the performance is drastically better.
>>
>> Some figures: Linux rx 350Mbps, tx 150bps, Windows rx 700mbps, tx 100 mbps.
>>     
>
> That will be great to have in qemu.
>
>   
>> The e1000_hw.h is copied from Linux kernel.
>>     
>
> Would it be possible to pick only the useful stuff from the header and
> put it into the same file, rather than maintaining a copy of a linux
> header (which is 3.5 bigger than the actual emulation in kLoC)? Qemu
> has avoided that until now.
>
>   
I can but then how can you compile qemu for OS's which do not have 
Linux/ or linux headers?
>> qemu/hw/e1000.c      | 1000 +++++++++++++++
>> qemu/hw/e1000_hw.h   | 3411 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>     
>
> Regards.
>