Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Defer skb allocation for both mergeable buffers and big packets in virtio_net

From: Mark McLoughlin <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:51:50 +0000

On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 11:23 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> I'd like to drop big packet support from our driver, but I don't know
> how many kvm hosts will not offer mergable rx bufs yet.  Anthony?

Mergeable rx bufs were first added in kvm-80 and qemu-0.10.0

So e.g., it's in Fedora since Fedora 11 and RHEL since 5.4

Cheers,
Mark.