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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:56:18PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 05:45:43PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >> Historically libvirtd was single threaded, serializing all
> >> requests across clients. An recent patch allowed multiple
> >> threads, so multiple clients could run in parallel. A single
> >> client was still serialized.
> ...
> 
> I haven't finished this one, but here's partial feedback:
> 
> > +void
> > +qemudClientMessageQueuePush(struct qemud_client_message **queue,
> > +                            struct qemud_client_message *msg)
> > +{
> > +    struct qemud_client_message *tmp = *queue;
> > +
> > +    if (tmp) {
> > +        while (tmp->next)
> > +            tmp = tmp->next;
> > +        tmp->next = msg;
> > +    } else {
> > +        *queue = msg;
> > +    }
> > +}
> > +
> > +static struct qemud_client_message *
> > +qemudClientMessageQueuePop(struct qemud_client_message **queue)
> > +{
> > +    struct qemud_client_message *tmp = *queue;
> > +
> > +    if (tmp)
> > +        *queue = tmp->next;
> > +    else
> > +        *queue = NULL;
> 
> If tmp really can be NULL (tested for above),
> then you can't dereference it below.

This was fixed in the update I just posted

> Also, since ...QueuePush appends,
> I would have expected ...QueuePop to remove from the end.

I renamed it to QueueServe in the end

Daniel
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