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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] virtio-net: inline header support
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 04:14:17PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > Thinking about Sasha's patches, we can reduce ring usage
> > for virtio net small packets dramatically if we put
> > virtio net header inline with the data.
> > This can be done for free in case guest net stack allocated
> > extra head room for the packet, and I don't see
> > why would this have any downsides.
>
> I've been wanting to do this for the longest time... but...
>
> > Even though with my recent patches qemu
> > no longer requires header to be the first s/g element,
> > we need a new feature bit to detect this.
> > A trivial qemu patch will be sent separately.
>
> There's a reason I haven't done this. I really, really dislike "my
> implemention isn't broken" feature bits. We could have an infinite
> number of them, for each bug in each device.
>
> So my plan was to tie this assumption to the new PCI layout.

I don't object but old qemu has this limitation for s390 as well,
and that's not using PCI, right? So how do we detect
new hypervisor there?

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MST


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