[libvirt] [RFC PATCH] qemu: Fail APIs not allowed during async job

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 04:41:38PM +0200, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> When an asynchronous job is running while another API that is
> incompatible with that job is called, we now try to wait until the job
> finishes and either run the API or fail with timeout. I guess nicer
> solution is to just fail such API immediately and let the application
> retry once the asynchronous job ends.

I'm not entirely convinced this is a good idea, because IIUC, what this
is in effect doing is having a zero second timeout. Previously we would
wait forever, currently we wait upto 30 seconds IIRC, and now we'll
wait 0 seconds. I think this will create lots of spurious timeouts
for applications to needlessly deal with.

Daniel
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