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@@ -602,10 +602,6 @@ operates as follows:
1. Place the buffer(s) into free descriptor(s).
- (a) If there are no free descriptors, the guest may choose to
- notify the device even if notifications are suppressed (to
- reduce latency).[8]
-
2. Place the id of the buffer in the next ring entry of the
available ring.
@@ -4067,11 +4063,6 @@ separate cache lines.
[7] These fields are kept here because this is the only part of the
virtqueue written by the device
-[8] The Linux drivers do this only for read-only buffers: for
-write-only buffers, it is assumed that the driver is merely
-trying to keep the receive buffer ring full, and no notification
-of this expected condition is necessary.
-
[9] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
[11] Even if it does mean documenting design or implementation