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Indirect desc
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Add support for INDIRECT_DESC for IoVecBuff/Mut and enabled VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC flag for virtio-net device. This feature allows guest to create more buffers for packets which in turn should help with throughput when all available descriptors are used.
Reason
Should help with network performance.
Note
This PR is built on top of #4658, so needs to be merged after it.
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