[libvirt] PATCH: 12/25: Remove global state from Inotify driver

Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net
Mon Jan 19 14:14:19 UTC 2009


"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> The 'inotify' driver currently keeps all its state in a global static
> variables. Not so great since we access this from all sorts of places
> and its hard to guarentee thread safety. Also, we're using per-connection
> FD watches to update this state, so if multiple Xen connections were
> active, they'd all be updating the same globl state. So we move the
> state into the virConnect object. This will increase memory usage if
> a single process has multiple Xen connections open though, but not
> by very much

Looks fine.
ACK




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