Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2 V4] virtio-spec: dynamic network offloads configuration

2013-05-21 Thread Rusty Russell
"Michael S. Tsirkin" writes: > On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 03:43:51PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> Is there a story behind skipping virtio-net feature bits 2..4? >> >> Paolo > > Bits 3-4 now :) > I'm curious too. Not a good one :) The year is 2007. virtio_net was the posterchild of free expressi

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2 V4] virtio-spec: dynamic network offloads configuration

2013-05-20 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 03:43:51PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 04/04/2013 09:55, Dmitry Fleytman ha scritto: > > From: Dmitry Fleytman > > > > Virtio-net driver currently negotiates network offloads > > on startup via features mechanism and have no ability to > > disable and re-enable offloa

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2 V4] virtio-spec: dynamic network offloads configuration

2013-05-20 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 04/04/2013 09:55, Dmitry Fleytman ha scritto: > From: Dmitry Fleytman > > Virtio-net driver currently negotiates network offloads > on startup via features mechanism and have no ability to > disable and re-enable offloads later. > This patch introduced a new control command that allows > to co