linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next] virtio-net: avoid unnecessary checksum calculation on guest RX

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Message-ID: <51614B7F-2C1C-43D5-A969-BC41FE6E821B@nutanix.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:00:21 +0000
From: Jon Kohler <jon@...anix.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
CC: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        Xuan
 Zhuo <xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Eugenio Pérez
	<eperezma@...hat.com>,
        "virtualization@...ts.linux.dev"
	<virtualization@...ts.linux.dev>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org"
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org"
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] virtio-net: avoid unnecessary checksum
 calculation on guest RX



> On Nov 26, 2025, at 7:30 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 12:16:56PM +0100, Paolo Abeni wrote:
>> On 11/25/25 9:00 PM, Jon Kohler wrote:
>>>> On Nov 25, 2025, at 12:57 PM, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> CC netdev
>>> 
>>> Thats odd, I used git send-email --to-cmd='./scripts/get_maintainer.pl,
>>> but it looks like in MAINTAINERS, that only would have hit
>>> VIRTIO CORE AND NET DRIVERS,
>> 
>> ?!? not here:
>> 
>> ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> 
> yes but not include/linux/virtio_net.h

Indeed! This fell thru a very small gap, will be fixed now in
the MAINTAINERS update I sent.

Small side note: the virtio_blk.c is a duplicate within core,
it isn’t hurting anything, but could be cleaned up. I left it
as-is for now.