On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 03:55:24PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 10:45:34AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> It would be nice though if each time you look whether the domain is
> defined or not, libvirt could give teh answer directly instead of going
> though the potentially expensive Info call. This would also require
> to double check invalidation of the _virDomain cached data at the
> proper places.
The virDomainGetInfo is a fast-path call - its either a direct hypercall,
or a hypercall via the proxy - we never make an expensive XenD call unless
they've broken the proxy somehow.
I was thinking about the upcoming remote support, and an RPC is expensive
for this kind of informations IMHO.
Daniel
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