On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:56:18PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 05:45:43PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >> Historically libvirtd was single threaded, serializing all
> >> requests across clients. An recent patch allowed multiple
> >> threads, so multiple clients could run in parallel. A single
> >> client was still serialized.
> ...
>
> I haven't finished this one, but here's partial feedback:
>
> > +void
> > +qemudClientMessageQueuePush(struct qemud_client_message **queue,
> > + struct qemud_client_message *msg)
> > +{
> > + struct qemud_client_message *tmp = *queue;
> > +
> > + if (tmp) {
> > + while (tmp->next)
> > + tmp = tmp->next;
> > + tmp->next = msg;
> > + } else {
> > + *queue = msg;
> > + }
> > +}
> > +
> > +static struct qemud_client_message *
> > +qemudClientMessageQueuePop(struct qemud_client_message **queue)
> > +{
> > + struct qemud_client_message *tmp = *queue;
> > +
> > + if (tmp)
> > + *queue = tmp->next;
> > + else
> > + *queue = NULL;
>
> If tmp really can be NULL (tested for above),
> then you can't dereference it below.
>
> Also, since ...QueuePush appends,
> I would have expected ...QueuePop to remove from the end.
The daemon needs a FIFO queue for fairness, so removing from head
is correct. To avoid confusion with Perl's push/pop/shift/unshift
semantics I should rename this Pop method to Shift instead.
Daniel
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