netdev - Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v3] linux: Report supported user features to the kernel

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Message-ID: <20131219181445.GG12514@nicira.com>
Date:	Thu, 19 Dec 2013 10:14:45 -0800
From:	Ben Pfaff <blp@...ira.com>
To:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...hat.com>
Cc:	jesse@...ira.com, dev@...nvswitch.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v3] linux: Report supported user features to
 the kernel

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 04:20:42PM +0100, Thomas Graf wrote:
> Following commit (''netlink: Do not enforce alignment of last Netlink
> attribute''), signal the ability to receive unaligned Netlink messages
> to the datapath to enable utilization of zerocopy optimizations.
> 
> Opening a datapath is now done by issueing a OVS_DP_CMD_SET in order
> to overwrite previously set user features.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...hat.com>

Jesse, I'm not sure of the status of this whole effort so I'll just say
that I'm happy with this patch:

Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@...ira.com>
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