Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/1 V4] virtio-net: dynamic network offloads configuration

[Dmitry Fleytman <dmitry@daynix.com>]

Spec patch already inside.

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On Apr 20, 2013, at 8:04 PM, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:10:01AM +0300, Dmitry Fleytman wrote:
>> Hello All,
>> 
>> Any news regarding this patch?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Dmitry
> 
> Rusty could you comment on the spec change soon please?
> If you pick it up I think we can include the feature in QEMU 1.5.
> 
>> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Dmitry Fleytman <dmitry@daynix.com> wrote:
>> 
>>    From: Dmitry Fleytman <dfleytma@redhat.com>
>> 
>>    This patch implements recently accepted by virtio-spec
>>    dynamic offloads configuration feature.
>>    See commit message for details.
>> 
>>    V4 changes:
>>      1. Feature definitions re-used for command bitmask
>>      2. Command data made uint64
>>      3. Commit messsages fixed
>> 
>>    Reported-by: Rusty Russell rusty@rustcorp.com.au
>> 
>>    V3 changes:
>>      1. Compat macro added
>>      2. Feature name beautification
>> 
>>    V2 changes:
>>      1. _GUEST_ added to command and feature names
>>      2. Live migration logic fixed
>> 
>>    Reported-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
>> 
>>    One of recently introduced Windows features (RSC)
>>    requires network driver to be able to enable and disable
>>    HW LRO offload on the fly without device reinitialization.
>> 
>>    Current Virtio specification doesn't support this requirement.
>>    The solution proposed by following spec patch is to add
>>    a new control command for this purpose.
>> 
>>    The same solution may be used in Linux driver for ethtool interface
>>    implementation.
>> 
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>>    1.8.1.4
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