[libvirt] PATCH: Don't blindly reorder disk drives

[Daniel Veillard]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 03:34:38PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> Calling qsort() on the disks array causes disk to be
> unneccessarily re-ordered, potentially breaking the
> ability to boot if the boot disk gets moved later in
> the list. The new algorithm will insert a new disk as
> far to the end of the list as possible, while being
> ordered correctly wrt other disks on the same bus.
> 
> * src/domain_conf.c, src/domain_conf.h: Remove disk sorting
>   routines. Add API to insert a disk into existing list at
>   the optimal position, without resorting disks
> * src/libvirt_private.syms: Export virDomainDiskInsert
> * src/xend_internal.c, src/xm_internal.c: Remove calls to
>   qsort, use virDomainDiskInsert instead.
> * src/qemu_driver.c: Remove calls to qsort, use virDoaminDiskInsert
>   instead. Fix reordering bugs when hotunplugging disks and
>   networks. Fix memory leak in disk/net unplug

  ACK, an important patch, we really should not drop this !

Daniel

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