netdev - Re: [net PATCH v2 0/5] virtio_net XDP fixes and adjust

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Message-ID: <58784156.5040006@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 12 Jan 2017 18:54:14 -0800
From:   John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
To:     jasowang@...hat.com, mst@...hat.com
Cc:     john.r.fastabend@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        alexei.starovoitov@...il.com, daniel@...earbox.net
Subject: Re: [net PATCH v2 0/5] virtio_net XDP fixes and adjust_header support

On 17-01-12 04:34 PM, John Fastabend wrote:
> This has a fix to handle small buffer free logic correctly and then
> also adds adjust head support.
> 
> I pushed adjust head at net (even though its rc3) to avoid having
> to push another exception case into virtio_net to catch if the
> program uses adjust_head and then block it. If there are any strong
> objections to this we can push it at net-next and use a patch from
> Jakub to add the exception handling but then user space has to deal
> with it either via try/fail logic or via kernel version checks. Granted
> we already have some cases that need to be configured to enable XDP
> but I don't see any reason to have yet another one when we can fix it
> now vs delaying a kernel version.
> 
> 
> v2: fix spelling error, convert unsigned -> unsigned int
> 
> ---

Sorry about the v2 here I got a connection reset by peer error from
git and it seems only 2/5 patches made it to the list. To avoid as much
confusion as possible I just sent a v3 and it seems to have completed
correctly.

Thanks,
John