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From: "Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [virtio-dev] Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v2 2/2] virtio_net: Extend
	virtio to use VF datapath when available
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 15:30:35 -0800
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