[libvirt] [PATCH 03/21] Convert QEMU driver mutex into a rwlock

[Daniel Veillard]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 02:05:32PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> A number of driver API methods which acquire the driver mutex
> only ever used the driver object in a read-only fashion. All
> these uses are converted to call qemuDriverLockRO() allowing
> for greater concurrency.
> 
> * src/qemu/qemu_conf.h: s/Mutex/RWLock/
> * src/qemu/qemu_driver.c: Add a qemuDriverLockRO() method and use
>   it anywhere that doesn't require a write lock on the driver

  Hum, I still wonder about erro handling strategies there, for example
even taking a read lock may fail not because of a programing error 
because there is already too many read lock taken.

[...]
> @@ -6834,6 +6846,8 @@ cleanup:
>  
>      if (vm)
>          virDomainObjUnlock(vm);
> +    qemuDriverUnlock(driver);
> +    qemuDriverLock(driver);
>      if (event)
>          qemuDomainEventQueue(driver, event);
>      qemuDriverUnlock(driver);

  Huh ??? really ? we need a way to allow other threads to get in ?
Maybe a tiny wait here would allow a rescheduling especially if on a
single processor.
  But otherwise this looks like a fairly automatic conversion so should
go in with 02/21 when ready, ACK

Daniel

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