From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] vhost: accelerate metadata access through
	vmap()
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 13:12:49 -0500
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