[libvirt] Horrible performance of virDomainGetInfo()

[Jiri Denemark]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 14:30:10 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> While investigating the RPC problems I've noticed that we have had a
> huge performance regression for virDomainGetInfo() due to the change
> which makes virDomainEndJob() save the XML status file every time it
> is called.
> 
> Previous to this change, 2000 calls to virDomainGetInfo() took ~2.5 seconds
> 
> After this change, 2000 calls to virDomainGetInfo() take 2 *minutes* 45 secs
> 
> I don't have an answer right now and it shouldnt block the release, but we
> have todo something to avoid this overhead.

I think we could change job APIs to only save XML status if async job is
active since we are currently not really interested in other jobs anyway.

Jirka