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Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:57:16 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	david.vrabel@...rix.com
Cc:	xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com,
	jennifer.herbert@...rix.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 08/14] xen-netback: use foreign page
 information from the pages themselves

From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 14:43:39 +0000

> On 12/01/15 15:43, David Vrabel wrote:
>> From: Jenny Herbert <jenny.herbert@...rix.com>
>> 
>> Use the foreign page flag in netback to get the domid and grant ref
>> needed for the grant copy.  This signficiantly simplifies the netback
>> code and makes netback work with foreign pages from other backends
>> (e.g., blkback).
>> 
>> This allows blkback to use iSCSI disks provided by domUs running on
>> the same host.
> 
> Dave,
> 
> This depends on several xen changes.  It's been Acked-by: Ian Campbell
> <ian.campbell@...rix.com>
> 
> Are you happy for me to merge this via the xen tree in 3.20?

No objections from me:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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