Re: [PATCH] Work around dhclient brokenness

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> I'd still like a way to disable it from the host.  Even when it does 
>>> nothing it will force the header into the host cache, which may be 
>>> different from the guest cache.
>>
>> It's already in the host cache as we don't have a zero copy API right 
>> now.
>
> I'm thinking of the possibility that we will have a zero copy API one 
> day.

Yes, and we can add an option to disable this hack when we implement a 
zero copy API.  It's much easier to add an option than it is to remove 
one.  I'm hoping that over time we can come up with a more clever 
solution to this problem eliminating the need to have an explicit option 
altogether.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori