[libvirt] PATCH: 17/25: Concurrent client dispatch in libvirtd

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Fri Jan 16 12:01:16 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:51:00PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
[...]

>From a "peephole" view of the patch, it looks sane enough, and I think
we should commit it and debug any fallout later.  One tiny comment:

> +struct qemud_client_message;
> +
> +struct qemud_client_message {
> +    char buffer [REMOTE_MESSAGE_MAX + REMOTE_MESSAGE_HEADER_XDR_LEN];
> +    unsigned int bufferLength;
> +    unsigned int bufferOffset;
> +
> +    int async : 1;
> +
> +    struct qemud_client_message *next;
> +};

(1) You don't need to predeclare the struct.  (2) This means the
struct is always the same size as the maximum-sized message.
Shouldn't we malloc the buffer?

Rich.

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