Re: [RFC PATCH v7 01/19] Add a new structure for skb buffer fromexternal.

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Sun Jun 20 2010 - 07:16:56 EST


On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 09:02:54PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 01:39:09PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >
> > > It's just like migrating from a backend that supports TSO
> > > to one that doesn't.
> >
> > Exactly. We don't support such migration.
>
> Well that's something that has to be addressed in the virtio_net.

Rather than modifying all guests, it seems much easier not to assume
specific buffer layout in host. Copying network header around seems a
small cost.

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