[Libvir] Virtual networking

[Hugh Brock]

Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 06:50 -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 
>>  Thibgs which were dirt cheap become way more
>> expensive when they don't need to, this is a severe regression from a
>> library user standpoint.
> 
> 	Just a small point on this ...
> 
> 	Are you sure that's optimising for the right thing? What libvirt API is
> so performance sensitive that a roundtrip on a unix domain socket would
> be a problem?
> 
> 	For example, even iterating the list of domain names is going to have a
> negligible cost compared with loading libvirt from disk :-)
> 
> 	However, the number of roundtrips to a management daemon *will* be an
> issue where the daemon is remote. And we're going to have that whether
> we use a daemon in the local case.
> 
> 	i.e. even *if* daemon roundtrips turn out to be an issue for local
> apps, we're going to have to fix that for the remote case anyway.
> 
I am just speculating here, but it seems to me that the remote case is 
going to be the more common one for most users who also care about 
performance. So agreeing with Mark, that is where we really need to be 
focusing our attention...

--Hugh