On 05/24/2012 03:37 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 03:22:28PM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
On 24.05.2012 14:14, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 05:46:51AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
On 05/20/2012 09:56 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
This patch adds a basic implementation of the listing code for
virConnectListAllDomains() to qemu driver. The listing code does
not support any filtering flags yet, but they may be easily added
later.
---
src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 97 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
+static void
+qemuPopulateDomainList(void *payload,
+ const void *name ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
+ void *opaque)
+{
+ struct virDomainListData *data = opaque;
+ virDomainObjPtr vm = payload;
+
+ if (data->error ||
+ (data->limit>= 0&&
+ data->ndomains>= data->limit))
+ return;
+
+ if (!data->populate) {
+ data->ndomains++;
+ return;
+ }
+
+ virDomainObjLock(vm);
I just realized: Since we are executing this under the driver lock, and
no VM can change state until we let go of the driver lock, it is not
necessary to lock vms in this loop. That will help things go faster in
computing the list.
Hmm, this feels slightly dangerous to me. Saying that is in effect saying
you can do reads on a virDomainObjPtr without locking. This would be ok
if it were impossible for the fields we're reading to be changed without
driver lock held.
1. Thread A lock(driver)
2. Thread A lock(vm1)
3. Thread A unlock(driver)
4. Thread B lock(driver)
5. Thread B ...starts getting the list of domains...
Now consider Thread A changes the 'id' feld in a virDomainPtr eg due
to the guest shutting down.
Won't thread B be doing unsafe reads of 'id' now ?
If a domain dies during enumeration the 'id' won't be valid at the end
anyway.
There's a significant difference between an ID value not being valid
anymore, which will be caught if it is used (assuming the ID values
have not wrapped), vs an ID value that is totally scrambled due to
non-atomic integer read/writes which could result in giving the ID
value of a different guest.
Moreover, long running APIs (like shutdown) set job and unlock
VM. Besides, the real id change is done in qemuProcessStop() rather than
qemuDomainShutdownFlags(). Since domain can die without any mgmt
application interaction, I don't think any app should rely on them. So
I'd say this doesn't really matter.
I think that's a separate question really. We should be threadsafe
in our usage regardless. The benefits of avoiding the locking here
are not so great as to make it worthwhile
With the (now almost finished) server side filtering implementation,
I'll be touching also other parts of the virDomainObj, so I'll have to
keep the locks anyways.
Peter
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