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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] virtio-net: put virtio net header inline with data
    On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 03:32:36PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
    > David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes:
    > > From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
    > > Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 08:00:32 +0300
    > >
    > >> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:33:26PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
    > >>> From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
    > >>> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 11:13:25 +0930
    > >>>
    > >>> > From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
    > >>> >
    > >>> > 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@redhat.com>
    > >>> > Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
    > >>>
    > >>> 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?
    > >
    > > -rc1 being released never makes net-next open. Instead, I explicitly
    > > open it up at some point in time after -rc1 when I feel that things
    > > have settled down enough.
    > >
    > > And when that happens, I announce so here.
    > >
    > > So you have to follow my announcements here on netdev to know
    > > when net-next is actually open.
    >
    > Thanks for letting me know. I'm sure that works well for others, but I
    > can't follow the mailing lists of every maintainer I deal with.
    >
    > Fortunately, you're the paragon for acking applied patches, so if I hit
    > this failure mode again I will know.
    >
    > Cheers,
    > Rusty.

    In case you missed this, net-next opened Fri, 19 Jul 2013.

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    MST


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