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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] netvsc: resize event buffer as needed
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 10:22:27 -0700
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On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 08:51:08 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote:

> The event buffer was changed to be a fixed size value, but it
> is not large enough for a forwarding stress test.
> 
> This version of event buffer code uses malloc/realloc to size
> the event buffer as needed. Malloc is preferred over rte_malloc
> because the event buffer does not need to be used for DMA
> and huge page is a limited resource.
> 
> Fixes: 530af95a7849 ("bus/vmbus: avoid signalling host on read")
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>

Self NAK. This won't work when secondary process needs the buffer.