On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 03:36:15PM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> On 07.02.2014 04:53, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> >This patch series adds job support to the libxl driver, using techiques from
> >the qemu driver. One benefit is no longer blocking get operations during
> >long running modify operations. E.g. with these patches 'vish dominfo dom'
> >will work while 'virsh save dom ...' is in progress.
> >
> >The first patch adds the job support machinery, followed by several patches
> >that make use of it. I initially had all but the first in a single
> >"use-job-support" patch, but hope breaking it out eases review.
> >
> >Jim Fehlig (11):
> > libxl: Add job support to libxl driver
> > libxl: use job functions in libxlVmStart
> > libxl: use job functions in libxlDomainSetMemoryFlags
> > libxl: use job functions in libxlDomain{Suspend,Resume}
> > libxl: use job functions in libxlDomainDestroyFlags
> > libxl: use job functions in domain save operations
> > libxl: use job functions in libxlDomainCoreDump
> > libxl: use job functions in vcpu set and pin functions
> > libxl: use job functions in device attach and detach functions
> > libxl: use job functions in libxlDomainSetAutostart
> > libxl: use job functions in libxlDomainSetSchedulerParametersFlags
> >
> > src/libxl/libxl_domain.c | 128 ++++++++++++++++++
> > src/libxl/libxl_domain.h | 37 +++++
> > src/libxl/libxl_driver.c | 346 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
> > 3 files changed, 395 insertions(+), 116 deletions(-)
> >
>
> Aha! This needs to be applied on the top of your 'misc trivial
> cleanups' set.
>
> The last time I've tried to introduce job control to the storage
> driver, it got rejected as it duplicated a lot of code from the qemu
> driver. Somebody suggested to rip the job control out into a
> separate unit so the code could be shared. Having said that, I'll
> review the patches, but please take my ACKs as 'code is okay' not
> permission to push. I'd rather see somebody else giving ACK to the
> design.
We could definitely use some shared module for job control APIs.
I didn't want to put too much burden on Jim right now though, since
we've still not merged the large PCI shared API work we asked for
wrt libxl + hostdev support. So figured shared job control could
be done as a followup.
Daniel
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