Bug 713615

Summary:	backport:performance: virtio_net: introduce VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_DATA_VALID
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Amos Kong <akong>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Red Hat Kernel Manager <kernel-mgr>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.2	CC:	ailan, jasowang, mst
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description Amos Kong 2011-06-15 23:12:25 UTC

Description of problem:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/99880/
[PATCH] virtio_net: introduce VIRTIO_NET_HDR_F_DATA_VALID

This is a patch for network performance , it had been applied to net-next-2.6 by David Miller. We need to backport it to RHEL6.2

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6.git;a=commit;h=10a8d94a95742bb15b4e617ee9884bb4381362be

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
host/guest kernel: 2.6.32-156.el6.x86_64

Comment 1 jason wang 2011-06-16 03:23:09 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 713337 ***