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From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/5] kvm: qemu: virtio_net: add support for mergeable rx buffers
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:50:33 +0000
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Hi,
        The mergeable receive buffers scheme has been in the Linux
virtio_net driver in net-next-2.6 for a while now, so it's probably
safe to assume what's there now is the final iteration of the ABI.

        The following patches implement support for the scheme in
KVM. Only the 5/5 patch contains functional changes.

        Changes since last time:

  + We now peak at how much buffer space is actually available in the
    ring and no longer assume that buffers are at least 4k

  + The new header is now 'struct virtio_net_hdr_mrg_rxbuf' rather
    than 'struct virtio_net_hdr2'

  + The new header no longer is padded to 32 bytes

Cheers,
Mark.