On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:16:14AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> * src/remote/remote_driver.c (remoteDomainCreate): Rewrite to take
> 1 RPC instead of 2 when talking to newer server, at expense of 3
> RPC instead of 2 for older server.
> ---
>
> I had already started coding this, but then Daniel Berrange
> reminded me off-list that changing existing API just for a
> minor optimization in the number of RPC calls is not a good
> idea: clients (like virsh) are already free to do the optimization
> themselves, and libvirt RPC calls tend not to be the critical
> path in the system in the first place.
>
> So, I'm posting this to have it archived, before nuking the
> commit from my repo.
>
> src/remote/remote_driver.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/remote/remote_driver.c b/src/remote/remote_driver.c
> index 7052bf1..a613ead 100644
> --- a/src/remote/remote_driver.c
> +++ b/src/remote/remote_driver.c
> @@ -3001,6 +3001,8 @@ static int
> remoteDomainCreate (virDomainPtr domain)
> {
> int rv = -1;
> + remote_domain_create_with_flags_args args0;
> + remote_domain_create_with_flags_ret ret0;
> remote_domain_create_args args;
> remote_domain_lookup_by_uuid_args args2;
> remote_domain_lookup_by_uuid_ret ret2;
> @@ -3008,6 +3010,24 @@ remoteDomainCreate (virDomainPtr domain)
>
> remoteDriverLock(priv);
>
> + /* First, try the newer API, for fewer call()s. */
> + make_nonnull_domain (&args0.dom, domain);
> + args0.flags = 0;
> +
> + memset (&ret0, 0, sizeof ret0);
> + if (call (domain->conn, priv, 0, REMOTE_PROC_DOMAIN_CREATE_WITH_FLAGS,
> + (xdrproc_t) xdr_remote_domain_create_with_flags_args,
> + (char *) &args0,
> + (xdrproc_t) xdr_remote_domain_create_with_flags_ret,
> + (char *) &ret0) == 0) {
> + domain->id = ret0.dom.id;
> + xdr_free ((xdrproc_t) &xdr_remote_domain_create_with_flags_ret,
> + (char *) &ret0);
> + rv = 0;
> + goto done;
> + }
> +
> + /* Fall back to the older 2-call sequence. */
> make_nonnull_domain (&args.dom, domain);
>
> if (call (domain->conn, priv, 0, REMOTE_PROC_DOMAIN_CREATE,
NACK, this is not required. The existing method is guarenteed to always
exist, so there is no benefit to calling the new method & it adds an
extra RPC call when talking to old servers
Daniel
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