Re: [PATCH] Work around dhclient brokenness

Anthony Liguori
2008-08-19T13:55:26Z

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