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From: Shirley Ma <mashirle@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] macvtap: TX zero copy between guest and host
 kernel
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:17:08 -0700
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Cc: "Xin, Xiaohui" <xiaohui.xin@intel.com>,
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On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 07:27 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> For some of the issues, try following the discussion around
> net: af_packet: don't call tpacket_destruct_skb() until the skb is
> sent
> out.
> 
> Summary: it's difficult to do correctly generally. Limiting ourselves
> to transmit on specific devices might make it possible.

Thanks for the tips.

Shirley