netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/5] XDP for virtio

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Message-ID: <582F5151.3050702@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 18 Nov 2016 11:06:57 -0800
From:   John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
To:     tgraf@...g.ch, shm@...ulusnetworks.com,
        alexei.starovoitov@...il.com, daniel@...earbox.net,
        davem@...emloft.net, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:     john.r.fastabend@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        bblanco@...mgrid.com, brouer@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] XDP for virtio_net

On 16-11-18 10:59 AM, John Fastabend wrote:
> This implements virtio_net for the mergeable buffers and big_packet
> modes. I tested this with vhost_net running on qemu and did not see
> any issues.
> 
> There are some restrictions for XDP to be enabled (see patch 3) for
> more details.
> 
>   1. LRO must be off
>   2. MTU must be less than PAGE_SIZE
>   3. queues must be available to dedicate to XDP
>   4. num_bufs received in mergeable buffers must be 1
>   5. big_packet mode must have all data on single page
> 
> Please review any comments/feedback welcome as always.
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> ---
> 

Hi Dave,

Should be obvious but this is for net-next I dropped the tag from my
git-send command.

Also I missed probably the most important person on the CC/TO list.

+Michael Tsirkin.

Thanks,
John