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 :|