Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > One scheme would be to have a small buffer - enough to store say 10 events. > If the monitor is blocking for write, and the buffer is full then start to > discard all further events. When the buffer has more space again, then > send an explicit 'overflow' event informing the app that stuff has been > dropped from the event queue. > > In normal circumstances the app would never see this message, but if there > was some unexpected problem causing the app to not process events quickly > enough, then at least it would be able to then detect that qemu has > discarded alot of events, and re-synchronize its state by running appropriate > 'info' commands. This is pretty much what Linux real-time queued I/O signals do. It's ugly but works. :-) -- Jamie -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list