Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 02/12] client rpc: Use event loop for writing

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 09:30:30 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 01:29:20AM +0200, Jiri Denemark wrote: > > Normally, when every call has a thread associated with it, the thread > > may get the buck and be in charge of sending all calls until its own > > call is done. When we introduced non-blocking calls, we had to add > > special handling of new non-blocking calls. This patch uses event loop > > to send data if there is no thread to get the buck so that any > > non-blocking calls left in the queue are properly sent without having to > > handle them specially. It also avoids adding even more cruft to client > > IO loop in the following patches. > > > > With this change in, non-blocking calls may see unpredictable delays in > > delivery when the client has no event loop registered. However, the only > > non-blocking calls we have are keepalives and we already require event > > loop for them. > > Is that 'see unpredictable delays' part really correct. AFAIK, there > should be a pretty well defined "delay" - it'll be processed on the very > next iteration of the event - assuming the socket is writable. I don't > really thing this is a delay at all in fact. OK, it's unpredictable but in the case of keepalive calls the delay is at most keepalive interval. The call may be processed earlier if a libvirt API is called in the meantime. I'll reword it a bit.