Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] conf: Rework virDomainObjListFindByUUID to allow more concurrent APIs

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On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 04:07:39PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
> On 12/05/14 15:02, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> > Currently, when there is an API that's blocking with locked domain and
> > second API that's waiting in virDomainObjListFindByUUID() for the domain
> > lock (with the domain list locked) no other API can be executed on any
> > domain on the whole hypervisor because all would wait for the domain
> > list to be locked.  This patch adds new optional approach to this in
> > which the domain is only ref'd (reference counter is incremented)
> > instead of being locked and is locked *after* the list itself is
> > unlocked.  We might consider only ref'ing the domain in the future and
> > leaving locking on particular APIs, but that's no tonight's fairy tale.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  src/conf/domain_conf.c   | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> >  src/conf/domain_conf.h   |  2 ++
> >  src/libvirt_private.syms |  1 +
> >  3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> 
> ACK, although given that the devel freeze is tomorrow and second patch
> of this series is pretty invasive, I think that giving this change a
> full dev cycle is a better way to go.

Agreed, particularly as this will be a longer dev cycle than usual
due to christmas - don't want to risk destablising this release.

Regards,
Daniel
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