[Libvir] [PATCH] Fix xm_internal configCache

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Wed Jul 4 13:04:32 UTC 2007


On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 01:13:03PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> This patch:
> 
> (1) Fixes inactive domains over remote.
> 
> The real cause of this error turned out to be that after configCache 
> hash is created, the last refresh date wasn't reset, so a subsequent 
> call to xenXMConfigCacheRefresh might not actually repopulate the cache. 
>  This only affects the remote case, because only in the remote case do 
> we have a long running process (libvirtd) which closes and reopens 
> xm_internal.c, so this code had never been exercised before.
> 
> It also explains why the bug was annoyingly intermittent.  If you wait 
> >= 10 seconds during testing, then the cache does get refilled, so the 
> bug is hidden.
> 
> (2) Adds error messages to xenXMConfigCacheRefresh.
> 
> (3) As Daniel Veillard suggested, change the obscure !nconnections-- 
> condition to two explicit statements.
> 
> (4) In xenXMOpen, change the condition from nconnections == 0 to 
> configCache == NULL, to remove the implicit dependency between the two 
> variables.

  Haha, looks fine to me ! +1

Daniel

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