From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51413) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMzq1-000663-EN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 07:57:20 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMzpv-00067o-Gm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 07:57:17 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:39250) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UMzpv-00067Q-A7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 07:57:11 -0400 Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 14:57:57 +0300 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20130402115757.GA22131@redhat.com> References: <1364902740-24948-1-git-send-email-dmitry@daynix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1364902740-24948-1-git-send-email-dmitry@daynix.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 V3] virtio-spec/net: dynamic network offloads configuration List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Dmitry Fleytman Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Ronen Hod , Yan Vugenfirer , Dmitry Fleytman On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 02:38:58PM +0300, Dmitry Fleytman wrote: > From: Dmitry Fleytman > > V3 changes: > 1. Compat macro added > 2. Feature name beautification > > V2 changes: > 1. _GUEST_ added to command and feature names > 2. Live migration logic fixed > > Reported-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Rusty? > One of recently introduced Windows features (RSC) > requires network driver to be able to enable and disable > HW LRO offload on the fly without device reinitialization. > > Current Virtio specification doesn't support this requirement. > The solution proposed by following spec patch is to add > a new control command for this purpose. > > The same solution may be used in Linux driver for ethtool interface > implementation. > > Patch for QEMU mainline that implements this specification change > attached as well. > > -- > 1.8.1.4