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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 17:31:03 +0100
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

On Thursday 30 April 2009, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Paul Brook wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> I thought with a point-to-point API, you would not actually be inserting
> any third device.

That's a fair chunk of functionality you just lost then.

Paul