v1: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2018-March/msg01295.html NB: This can wait until 4.2.0 is release, but I figured I'd post this now just to put it on the radar and of course in hopes that someone will look during the idle moment or two before the release. Changes since v1: Short story: Rework the processing of the code Longer story: In his review Erik noted that there's a "fire dance" when processing the vir*Obj*Remove APIs of requiring a locked object upon entry, then adding a reference to that object, unlocking the object, locking the list to which it is contained, and then relocking the object. So it took some time to think about it and during one lengthy meeting today I had the aha moment that the *Remove API's could take the same key (e.g., uuid or name) used to Add or Find the object and use it for the Remove API. This allows the Remove API to not require a locked (and reffed) object upon entry and perform the lock dance, remove the object, and return just just a reffed object forcing the caller to know to Unref object. Instead, let's simplify things. The *Remove API can take the key, Find the object in the list, remove it from the hash tables, and dispose of the object. In essence the antecedent to the Add or AssignDef API's taking a def, creating an object, and adding it the object to the hash table(s). If there are two *Remove threads competing, one will win and perform the removal, while the other will call *Remove, but won't find the object in the hash table, and just return none the wiser. And yes, I think this can also work for the Domain code, but it's going to take a few patch series to get there as that code is not consistent between consumers. John Ferlan (9): secret: Rework LoadAllConfigs secret: Alter virSecretObjListRemove processing interface: Alter virInterfaceObjListRemove processing nodedev: Alter virNodeDeviceObjListRemove processing conf: Clean up virStoragePoolObjLoad error processing storage: Clean up storagePoolCreateXML error processing test: Clean up testStoragePoolCreateXML error processing conf: Move virStoragePoolObjRemove closer to AssignDef storagepool: Alter virStoragePoolObjRemove processing src/conf/virinterfaceobj.c | 26 +++++++---- src/conf/virinterfaceobj.h | 2 +- src/conf/virnodedeviceobj.c | 29 +++++++----- src/conf/virnodedeviceobj.h | 2 +- src/conf/virsecretobj.c | 58 +++++++++++------------- src/conf/virsecretobj.h | 2 +- src/conf/virstorageobj.c | 92 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- src/conf/virstorageobj.h | 2 +- src/node_device/node_device_hal.c | 16 ++++--- src/node_device/node_device_udev.c | 13 ++++-- src/secret/secret_driver.c | 15 ++++--- src/storage/storage_driver.c | 65 +++++++++++++++------------ src/test/test_driver.c | 78 +++++++++++++++++--------------- 13 files changed, 225 insertions(+), 175 deletions(-) -- 2.13.6 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list