netdev - Re: virtio-net header alignment

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Date:	Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:50:03 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Danielius Kudinskas <kudinskas@...ibm.com>,
	aliguori@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, Paul T Knowles <pablo@...ibm.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: virtio-net header alignment

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:01:06AM -0700, Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
>
> I think this fixes the old RX path rather than the mergeable RX path.
> try_fill_recv_maxbufs() is called from try_fill_recv()
> 
>         if (!vi->mergeable_rx_bufs) {
>                 try_fill_recv_maxbufs(vi);
>                 return;
>         }

Yes you're right.  We should do s/mergeable/non-mergeable/ in the
changelog :)

Thanks,
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