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From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] kvm: qemu: virtio_net: add support for mergeable
	rx buffers
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:32:17 +0000
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On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 14:45 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > 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.
> >   
> 
> Applied all, thanks.

Great.

> >         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'
> >   
> 
> Does the updated driver support both?

Nope, just the struct virtio_net_hdr_mrg_rxbuf'

Cheers,
Mark.