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Mergeable rx buffers is a virtio-net feature that allows the hypervisor to use multiple RX descriptor chains to receive a single receive packet. Without this feature, a TSO-enabled guest is compelled to publish only 64K (or 32K) long chains, and each of these large buffers is consumed to receive a single packet, even a very short one. This is a waste of memory, as a RX queue has room for 256 chains, which means up to 16MB of buffer memory for each (single-queue) vtnet device. With the feature on, the guest can publish 2K long chains, and the hypervisor will merge them as needed. This change also enables the feature in the netmap backend, which supports virtio-net offloads. We plan to add support for the tap backend too. Note that differently from QEMU/KVM, here we implement one-copy receive, while QEMU uses two copies. Reviewed by: jhb MFC after: 3 weeks Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21007
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