"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
This patch series is (mostly) aimed at providing full support for threads in the libvirt API. Specifically we remove the restriction that a single virConnectPtr is tied to a thread. Multiple threads can safely use the same object (provided one doesn't free it behind another's back :-P )
This is tested to compile on Linux + Win32 (MinGW), hopefully doesn't break Solaris, but I'll be testing that soon too.
I've tortured the patches in various nasty ways are they're now stable enough to let loose and probably merge for wider testing. It'll probably be easier to just fix future problems in tree, rather than maintain this patchset longer.
The full patchset is also available here
http://berrange.fedorapeople.org/libvirt-threads-2009-01-13/
Thanks! In order to make it easier for others to evaluate, I've applied all of that, massaging headers so that "git am --whitespace=fix" would do the right thing. The sole non-whitespace change was to remove a single conflicting hunk in #17, which was due to my s/X_OK/R_OK/ fix. The result is now in the mirrored git tree: http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libvirt.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/danpb-thread... Once you have a clone of the tree (or if you have an existing one), you can check out that branch like this: git checkout -b danpb-threads origin/danpb-threads I expect to rebase it as things evolve, and eventually to discard it once everything makes it to "master".