From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: kernel vhost demands an interrupt from guest when the ring is
	full in order to enable guest to submit new packets to the queue
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 17:55:40 -0500
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