[libvirt] [PATCH v2 1/2] timer impl

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 01:48:42PM +0800, Wen Congyang wrote:
> At 12/15/2010 11:32 PM, Daniel P. Berrange Write:
> > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 08:24:44AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> >> On 12/15/2010 08:20 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> >>> On 12/14/2010 07:34 PM, Wen Congyang wrote:
> >>>
> >>> In addition to Hu's comments, and the fact that you are probably going
> >>> to revise the exposed interface anyways, here's some additional points.
> >>
> >> One other point - how does this relate to the timeouts already
> >> implemented in places like daemon/event.c or src/util/event.c?  Are
> >> those implementations already sufficient for your needs without having
> >> to write a new implementation?  Or conversely, should your patch series
> >> be lengthened into rewriting those interfaces to take advantage of your
> >> new implementation in order to ease maintenance by focusing all timeout
> >> code into a single reusable interface?  In other words, I'm still
> >> seeking a bit more justification for this patch.
> > 
> > IMHO it should be sufficient for this new code to simply call
> > the existing virEventAddTimeout() API, and run the event loop
> > in the background thread.
> 
> Hmm... I do not notice this API...
> 
> Thanks for pointing this.
> 
> I rough scan this API, it uses gettimeofday() to calculate the timeout.
> The time returns from gettimeofday can be changed by user, and it will
> cause some problems...

In theory yes, but in reality that's a non-issue. We've had this
code for 4 years and never had any reports of such a problem.

Daniel