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.