[libvirt] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/6] Allow multiple monitor devices (v2)
Anthony Liguori
aliguori at us.ibm.com
Thu Apr 9 14:13:05 UTC 2009
Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> Avi Kivity wrote:
>>> hotplug disk
>>> -ENOSPC on disk
>>>
>>> It's true that events don't correlate directly to commands, but they
>>> do correlate to the state of the system and that is affected by
>>> commands.
>>
>> events are time stamped. In non-human mode, I think command
>> responses should be time stamped too so that a management tool knows
>> when the event was generated and can correlate the system state to
>> the particular event.
>
> Timestamping doesn't help since the command could have been delayed in
> the monitor socket.
>
> Further, we're now so deep down the complexity spiral that it has now
> become the most complicated piece of code in the entire system.
You certainly cannot believe that, can you?
> Surely the best way to synchronize events is to keep them on one
> timeline?
Can you show exactly how you would expect things to work in the monitor
output? I'm having a hard time understanding what you're suggesting.
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Regards,
Anthony Liguori
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