Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Thinking about Sasha's patches, we can reduce ring usage >> for virtio net small packets dramatically if we put >> virtio net header inline with the data. >> This can be done for free in case guest net stack allocated >> extra head room for the packet, and I don't see >> why would this have any downsides. > > I've been wanting to do this for the longest time... but... > >> Even though with my recent patches qemu >> no longer requires header to be the first s/g element, Breaks for me; see why I hate bug features? Now we'd need another one... qemu-system-i386: virtio: trying to map MMIO memory Please try my patch. Cheers, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
