On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 02:06:11PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > This series does more general refactoring to help in the goal of killing > the big QEMU driver lock. There are 3 key changes in this series > > - Isolating all QEMU configuration parameters in one struct. > - Making virDomainObjList self-locking > - Add dedicated locking to PCI/USB device lists > > There are all the really hard bits of the QEMU locking. As can be seen > from the last patch there is still more work to be done before the QEMU > driver lock can be said to be truely dead, but this is less critical. Oh and the motivation for doing this work now is that it is a pre-requisite to the role based access control patches. I realized that those patches would have required holding the QEMU driver lock in many more places making concurrency much worse. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list