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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 9/9] Introduce VLANClientState::cleanup()
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:02:31 +0100
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Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

> Sure, you can short-ciruit the case where you have a pair of devices,
> but then you need to revoke posted receive descriptors.

Isn't the same true with a point-point API? When you add a third device to the 
vlan you're going to have to break the tap-guest link, and insert a proxy in 
the middle.

Paul