From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/17] virtual-bus
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:43:36 -0700
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Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
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	pmorreale@novell.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <m.s.tsirkin@gmail.com>
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Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Rusty, I think this is what you did in your patch from 2008 to add destructor
> for skb data ( http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2008/4/18/1464944 ):
> and it seems that it would make zero-copy possible - or was there some problem with
> that approach? Do you happen to remember?
>   

I'm planning on resurrecting it to replace the page destructor used by 
Xen netback.

    J