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

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Tue Jan 20 18:12:44 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:14:19PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> "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

Comitted this.

Daniel
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