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From: Shirley Ma <mashirle@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] Defer skb allocation -- add destroy buffers
 function for virtio
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:22:22 -0800
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Hello Michael,

On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 22:22 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> I dont insist, but my idea was
> 
> for (;;) {
>         b = vq->destroy(vq);
>         if (!b)
>                 break;
>         --vi->num;
>         put_page(b);
> }
> 
> so we do not have to lose track of the counter.

That's not a bad idea, but to do this, then this fuction will be
specific for virtio_net device (vi is virtnet_info) only in a generic
virtqueue API.

Thanks
Shirley