From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: why we need call xennet_alloc_rx_buffers() in
 xennet_poll() in Netfront module?
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 11:31:15 -0500
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