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<title>virtio: Tweak virtio_net defines</title>
<updated>2008-02-04T12:50:02+00:00</updated>
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<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
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<published>2008-02-05T04:50:02+00:00</published>
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1) Turn GSO on virtio net into an all-or-nothing (keep checksumming
   separate).  Having multiple bits is a pain: if you can't support something
   you should handle it in software, which is still a performance win.

2) Make VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_ECN a flag in the header, so it can apply to
   IPv6 or v4.

3) Rename VIRTIO_NET_F_NO_CSUM to VIRTIO_NET_F_CSUM (ie. means we do
   checksumming).

4) Add csum and gso params to virtio_net to allow more testing.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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1) Turn GSO on virtio net into an all-or-nothing (keep checksumming
   separate).  Having multiple bits is a pain: if you can't support something
   you should handle it in software, which is still a performance win.

2) Make VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_ECN a flag in the header, so it can apply to
   IPv6 or v4.

3) Rename VIRTIO_NET_F_NO_CSUM to VIRTIO_NET_F_CSUM (ie. means we do
   checksumming).

4) Add csum and gso params to virtio_net to allow more testing.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<title>virtio: Net header needs hdr_len</title>
<updated>2008-02-04T12:50:02+00:00</updated>
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<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
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<published>2008-02-05T04:50:01+00:00</published>
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It's far easier to deal with packets if we don't have to parse the
packet to figure out the header length to know how much to pull into
the skb data.  Add the field to the virtio_net_hdr struct (and fix the
spaces that somehow crept in there).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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It's far easier to deal with packets if we don't have to parse the
packet to figure out the header length to know how much to pull into
the skb data.  Add the field to the virtio_net_hdr struct (and fix the
spaces that somehow crept in there).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<title>virtio: simplify config mechanism.</title>
<updated>2008-02-04T12:49:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-05T04:49:56+00:00</published>
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Previously we used a type/len pair within the config space, but this
seems overkill.  We now simply define a structure which represents the
layout in the config space: the config space can now only be extended
at the end.

The main driver-visible changes:
1) We indicate what fields are present with an explicit feature bit.
2) Virtqueues are explicitly numbered, and not in the config space.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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Previously we used a type/len pair within the config space, but this
seems overkill.  We now simply define a structure which represents the
layout in the config space: the config space can now only be extended
at the end.

The main driver-visible changes:
1) We indicate what fields are present with an explicit feature bit.
2) Virtqueues are explicitly numbered, and not in the config space.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<title>Net driver using virtio</title>
<updated>2007-10-23T05:49:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-22T01:03:37+00:00</published>
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The network driver uses two virtqueues: one for input packets and one
for output packets.  This has nice locking properties (ie. we don't do
any for recv vs send).

TODO:
	1) Big packets.
	2) Multi-client devices (maybe separate driver?).
	3) Resolve freeing of old xmit skbs (Christian Borntraeger)

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
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The network driver uses two virtqueues: one for input packets and one
for output packets.  This has nice locking properties (ie. we don't do
any for recv vs send).

TODO:
	1) Big packets.
	2) Multi-client devices (maybe separate driver?).
	3) Resolve freeing of old xmit skbs (Christian Borntraeger)

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
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