netdev - Re: [PATCH] virtio-net: put virtio net header inline with data

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Message-ID: <20130717050032.GB10482@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 17 Jul 2013 08:00:32 +0300
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	rusty@...tcorp.com.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org, jasowang@...hat.com,
	amwang@...hat.com, akong@...hat.com, davej@...hat.com,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio-net: put virtio net header inline with data

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:33:26PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 11:13:25 +0930
> 
> > From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.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@...hat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.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?
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