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

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:11:24 +0300

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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