Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] qemuDomainSendKey: Relax the qemu driver locking
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 01:17:35PM +0100, Viktor Mihajlovski wrote:
On 01/24/2013 11:45 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>
>Yes, that's another candidate.
>Basically for now, everything that uses qemu driver other than:
>- domain lookup
>- begin/end job
>- enter/exit monitor
>SHOULD be using long term lock. This, however, will soon be past - I
>believe I saw an e-mail from Dan saying, qemu driver locking should be
>turned into R/W locks.
>
>Michal
>
Sounds reasonable. Knowing that this is *some* work, wouldn't it make
sense to relax the locking for all eligible qemu_driver functions in
one patch?
This would then be a tangible feature of 1.0.2.
I'm killing the big qemu driver lock entirely in the release
after this.
Daniel
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