netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio: Add detach unused buffer from vring

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Message-ID: <20091224133544.GA2855@amit-x200.redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:05:44 +0530
From:	Amit Shah <amit.shah@...hat.com>
To:	Shirley Ma <mashirle@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio: Add detach unused buffer from vring

On (Thu) Dec 17 2009 [23:43:50], Shirley Ma wrote:
> There's currently no way for a virtio driver to ask for unused
> buffers, so it has to keep a list itself to reclaim them at shutdown.
> This is redundant, since virtio_ring stores that information.  So
> add a new hook to do this: virtio_net will be the first user.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma <xma@...ibm.com>

Acked-By: Amit Shah <amit.shah@...hat.com>

		Amit
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