From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH] Work around dhclient brokenness Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:00:38 +0300 Message-ID: <48AAD206.4070208@qumranet.com> References: <1218829632-19037-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <48A95FC7.90105@qumranet.com> <20080818114425.GA20351@gondor.apana.org.au> <200808191045.20980.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <48AA8E90.7070404@qumranet.com> <48AACDCE.60907@us.ibm.com> <48AACFA1.2020004@qumranet.com> <48AAD0A3.7080806@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Rusty Russell , Herbert Xu , kvm@vger.kernel.org, Mark McLoughlin To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: Received: from il.qumranet.com ([212.179.150.194]:58367 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751873AbYHSOAj (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:00:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48AAD0A3.7080806@us.ibm.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Anthony Liguori wrote: > 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. > Makes sense. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function