[libvirt] [PATCH 4/5] conf: add options for disabling segment offloading

[Eric Blake]

On 09/17/2014 08:57 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

>>> +      <b><driver csum='off' gso='off' guest_tso4='off' guest_tso6='off' guest_ecn='off'/></b>
>>> +    </interface>
>>
>> Are we stuck with names with underscores in our XML?  I'm still not sure
>> if we've come up with the best naming for exposing all these knobs.
> 
> I'm not really convinced having a 'guest_' prefix really buys
> us anything here, since there's no naming clash to avoid. Why
> don't we just kill the 'guest_' prefixes.
> 
> NB, remember that precisely matching QEMU naming is a non-goal,
> we should be designing something that makes sense in general.

I agree; I'd be fine with:

     <driver csum='off' gso='off' tso4='off' tso6='off' ecn='off'/>

with no need for a <guest> sub-structure.  Yeah, we'll have to do some
glue logic to translate to qemu names, but that's what libvirt is for.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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