On 07/20/2011 12:21 AM, Laine Stump wrote:
Previously all networks were composed of bridge devices created and
managed by libvirt, and the same operations needed to be done for all
of them when they were started and stopped (create and start the
bridge device, configure its MAC address and IP address, add iptables
rules). The new network types are (for now at least) managed outside
of libvirt, and the network object is used only to contain information
about the network, which is then used as each individual guest
connects itself.
This means that when starting/stopping one of these new networks, we
really want to do nothing, aside from marking the network as
active/inactive.
This has been setup as toplevel Start/Shutdown functions that do the
small bit of common stuff, then have a switch statement to execute
network type-specific start/shutdown code, then do a bit more common
code. The type-specific functions called for the new host bridge and
macvtap based types are currently empty.
In the future these functions may actually do something, and we will
surely add more functions that are similarly patterned. Once
everything has settled, we can make a table of "sub-driver" function
pointers for each network type, and store a pointer to that table in
the network object, then we can replace the switch statements with
calls to functions in the table.
The final step in this will be to add a new table (and corresponding
new functions) for new network types as they are added.
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Unchanged from V1.
V1 was acked, and I didn't spot any major differences.
+error:
+ if (ret< 0) {
+ virErrorPtr save_err = virSaveLastError();
+ int save_errno = errno;
Oops. virSaveLastError doesn't (currently) preserve errno. Sounds like
a separate patch is worthwhile in the meantime, rather than altering
this one.
ACK.
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Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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