Re: [PATCH RFC (resend) net-next 0/6] virtio-net: Add support for virtio-net header extensions

2017-04-24 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:34:57AM -0400, Vlad Yasevich wrote: > > - For 1.1, do we really want something like vnet header? AFAIK, it was not > > used by modern > > NICs, is this better to pack all meta-data into descriptor itself? This may > > need a some > > changes in tun/macvtap, but looks mo

Re: [PATCH RFC (resend) net-next 0/6] virtio-net: Add support for virtio-net header extensions

2017-04-23 Thread Jason Wang
On 2017年04月21日 21:08, Vlad Yasevich wrote: On 04/21/2017 12:05 AM, Jason Wang wrote: On 2017年04月20日 23:34, Vlad Yasevich wrote: On 04/17/2017 11:01 PM, Jason Wang wrote: On 2017年04月16日 00:38, Vladislav Yasevich wrote: Curreclty virtion net header is fixed size and adding things to it is rat

Re: [PATCH RFC (resend) net-next 0/6] virtio-net: Add support for virtio-net header extensions

2017-04-21 Thread Vlad Yasevich
On 04/21/2017 12:05 AM, Jason Wang wrote: > > > On 2017年04月20日 23:34, Vlad Yasevich wrote: >> On 04/17/2017 11:01 PM, Jason Wang wrote: >>> >>> On 2017年04月16日 00:38, Vladislav Yasevich wrote: Curreclty virtion net header is fixed size and adding things to it is rather difficult to

Re: [PATCH RFC (resend) net-next 0/6] virtio-net: Add support for virtio-net header extensions

2017-04-20 Thread Jason Wang
On 2017年04月20日 23:34, Vlad Yasevich wrote: On 04/17/2017 11:01 PM, Jason Wang wrote: On 2017年04月16日 00:38, Vladislav Yasevich wrote: Curreclty virtion net header is fixed size and adding things to it is rather difficult to do. This series attempt to add the infrastructure as well as some ex

Re: [PATCH RFC (resend) net-next 0/6] virtio-net: Add support for virtio-net header extensions

2017-04-20 Thread Vlad Yasevich
On 04/17/2017 11:01 PM, Jason Wang wrote: > > > On 2017年04月16日 00:38, Vladislav Yasevich wrote: >> Curreclty virtion net header is fixed size and adding things to it is rather >> difficult to do. This series attempt to add the infrastructure as well as >> some >> extensions that try to resolve

Re: [PATCH RFC (resend) net-next 0/6] virtio-net: Add support for virtio-net header extensions

2017-04-17 Thread Jason Wang
On 2017年04月16日 00:38, Vladislav Yasevich wrote: Curreclty virtion net header is fixed size and adding things to it is rather difficult to do. This series attempt to add the infrastructure as well as some extensions that try to resolve some deficiencies we currently have. First, vnet header on

[PATCH RFC (resend) net-next 0/6] virtio-net: Add support for virtio-net header extensions

2017-04-15 Thread Vladislav Yasevich
Curreclty virtion net header is fixed size and adding things to it is rather difficult to do. This series attempt to add the infrastructure as well as some extensions that try to resolve some deficiencies we currently have. First, vnet header only has space for 16 flags. This may not be enough i