Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/1 V4] virtio-net: dynamic network offloads configuration

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:10:01AM +0300, Dmitry Fleytman wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> Any news regarding this patch?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dmitry
> 

Rusty could you comment on the spec change soon please?
If you pick it up I think we can include the feature in QEMU 1.5.

> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Dmitry Fleytman <dmitry@daynix.com> wrote:
> 
>     From: Dmitry Fleytman <dfleytma@redhat.com>
> 
>     This patch implements recently accepted by virtio-spec
>     dynamic offloads configuration feature.
>     See commit message for details.
> 
>     V4 changes:
>       1. Feature definitions re-used for command bitmask
>       2. Command data made uint64
>       3. Commit messsages fixed
> 
>     Reported-by: Rusty Russell rusty@rustcorp.com.au
> 
>     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 <mst@redhat.com>
> 
>     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.
>    
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>     1.8.1.4
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