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From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] xen-netback: make feature-rx-notify mandatory
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 12:16:29 +0100
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On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 02:08:53PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> Frontends that do not provide feature-rx-notify may stall because
> netback depends on the notification from frontend to wake the guest Rx
> thread (even if can_queue is false).
> 
> This could be fixed but feature-rx-notify was introduced in 2006 and I
> am not aware of any frontends that do not implement this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>

Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>