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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio: console: Wake up outvq on host notifications
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:33:15 +1030
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 06:06:36 pm Amit Shah wrote:
> The outvq needs to be woken up on host notifications so that buffers
> consumed by the host can be reclaimed, outvq freed, and application
> writes may proceed again.
> 
> The need for this is now finally noticed when I have qemu patches ready
> to use nonblocking IO and flow control.

What about -stable?

Thanks,
Rusty.