From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: alias rework Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:14:47 +0200 Message-ID: <4B5EF8D7.7020806@redhat.com> References: <20100125155344.327ba0d8@redhat.com> <20100125194553.GB20572@amt.cnet> <20100125215743.6442b1e4@redhat.com> <20100125202039.GB21800@amt.cnet> <20100125224032.19bc6890@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Izik Eidus Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:38950 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751193Ab0AZOOt (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:14:49 -0500 Received: from int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.21]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o0QEEm4x027372 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:14:49 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20100125224032.19bc6890@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 01/25/2010 10:40 PM, Izik Eidus wrote: > >> Or is this a feature you need? >> > > I dont need it (I asked Avi to do something), So he said he want to nuke the aliasing > from kvm and keep supporting the old userspace`s > > Do you have any other way to achive this? > > Btw I do realize it might be better not to push this patch and just keep the old > way of treating aliasing as we have now, I really don`t mind. > How about implementing an alias pointing at a deleted slot as an invalid slot? If the slot comes back later, we can revalidate it. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function