From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751054Ab3GQBDr (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jul 2013 21:03:47 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:59745 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750820Ab3GQBDo (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jul 2013 21:03:44 -0400 From: Rusty Russell To: David Miller Cc: mst@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jasowang@redhat.com, amwang@redhat.com, akong@redhat.com, davej@redhat.com, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio-net: put virtio net header inline with data In-Reply-To: <20130716.123326.798365002638711260.davem@davemloft.net> References: <87vc4kcfzg.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <20130709.213807.350021632586146971.davem@davemloft.net> <8761wc38ea.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <20130716.123326.798365002638711260.davem@davemloft.net> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.15.2+81~gd2c8818 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.4.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 09:38:15 +0930 Message-ID: <87bo62yro0.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Miller writes: > From: Rusty Russell > Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 11:13:25 +0930 > >> From: Michael S. Tsirkin >> >> 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 >> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell > > I really think this has to wait until the next merge window, sorry. > > Please resubmit this when I open net-next back up, thanks. Oh, assumed it was already open. Will re-submit then. Cheers, Rusty. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rusty Russell Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio-net: put virtio net header inline with data Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 09:38:15 +0930 Message-ID: <87bo62yro0.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> References: <87vc4kcfzg.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <20130709.213807.350021632586146971.davem@davemloft.net> <8761wc38ea.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <20130716.123326.798365002638711260.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: amwang@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, davej@redhat.com To: David Miller Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20130716.123326.798365002638711260.davem@davemloft.net> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org David Miller writes: > From: Rusty Russell > Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 11:13:25 +0930 > >> From: Michael S. Tsirkin >> >> 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 >> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell > > I really think this has to wait until the next merge window, sorry. > > Please resubmit this when I open net-next back up, thanks. Oh, assumed it was already open. Will re-submit then. Cheers, Rusty.