These two patches provide the ability to configure which of two
algorithms is used on the TX side of the virtio-net-pci
device. Details are in the comments for PATCH 2/2.
There are also at least a couple of open questions about the patch,
which are posed in the comments of 2/2. It's highly unlikely this
patch will be pushed as-is - I'm sending it mostly to solicit comments
on those questions.