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From: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio: Add detach unused buffer from vring
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:05:44 +0530
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Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
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On (Thu) Dec 17 2009 [23:43:50], Shirley Ma wrote:
> There's currently no way for a virtio driver to ask for unused
> buffers, so it has to keep a list itself to reclaim them at shutdown.
> This is redundant, since virtio_ring stores that information.  So
> add a new hook to do this: virtio_net will be the first user.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma <xma@us.ibm.com>

Acked-By: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>

		Amit