> First up to 4k should not be a problem. Even jumbo frames e.g. 9k
> is highly likely to succeed. And a probe time which is often boot
> even 64k isn't a problem ...
> 
> Hmm. We could allocate large buffers at probe time. Reuse them and
> copy data over.
> 
> IOW reusing  GOOD_COPY_LEN flow for this case.  Not yet sure how I feel
> about this. OTOH it removes the need for the whole feature blocking
> approach, does it not?
> WDYT?
> 

It could work..

In order to remove completely the feature blocking approach, we'll need to let 
the control commands fail (as you mentioned in the other patch).
I'm not sure I like it, it means many warnings from virtnet..
And it means accepting features that we know for sure that are not going to 
work.
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