On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 at 00:20, Jakub Kicinski [off-list ref] wrote:

Broken as in patch titles or broken as in it crashes the kernel?
Both are true.

Yeah, I will fix both

Just to be safe "as soon as possible" hopefully
takes into account our "no reposts within 24h" rule.
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/process/maintainer-netdev.html

Yes, It does

Also I'm not sure what you mean by RFT, doubt anyone will test this
for you, and you're modifying virtio which you should be able to test
yourself.. RFC or PATCH is the choice.

Just to be clear, would testing packet flow with all the possible mode
combinations
under heavy traffic be sufficient and exhaustive? I think this should
be PATCH once
I sort everything out