Re: [PATCH] virtio-net: put virtio net header inline with data

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Wed Jul 17 2013 - 00:59:25 EST


On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:33:26PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 11:13:25 +0930
>
> > From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > For small packets we can simplify xmit processing
> > by linearizing buffers with the header:
> > most packets seem to have enough head room
> > we can use for this purpose.
> > Since existing hypervisors require that header
> > is the first s/g element, we need a feature bit
> > for this.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I really think this has to wait until the next merge window, sorry.
>
> Please resubmit this when I open net-next back up, thanks.

I assumed since -rc1 is out net-next is already open?
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