Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] virtio-net: put virtio net header inline with data | Date | Wed, 17 Jul 2013 15:32:36 +0930 |
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David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes: > From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> > Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 08:00:32 +0300 > >> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:33:26PM -0700, David Miller wrote: >>> From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> >>> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 11:13:25 +0930 >>> >>> > From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> >>> > >>> > For small packets we can simplify xmit processing >>> > by linearizing buffers with the header: >>> > most packets seem to have enough head room >>> > we can use for this purpose. >>> > Since existing hypervisors require that header >>> > is the first s/g element, we need a feature bit >>> > for this. >>> > >>> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> >>> > Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> >>> >>> I really think this has to wait until the next merge window, sorry. >>> >>> Please resubmit this when I open net-next back up, thanks. >> >> I assumed since -rc1 is out net-next is already open? > > -rc1 being released never makes net-next open. Instead, I explicitly > open it up at some point in time after -rc1 when I feel that things > have settled down enough. > > And when that happens, I announce so here. > > So you have to follow my announcements here on netdev to know > when net-next is actually open.
Thanks for letting me know. I'm sure that works well for others, but I can't follow the mailing lists of every maintainer I deal with.
Fortunately, you're the paragon for acking applied patches, so if I hit this failure mode again I will know.
Cheers, Rusty.
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