[libvirt] [PATCH v4 01/13] Define keepalive protocol

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Mon Nov 7 20:00:13 UTC 2011


On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 06:05:37PM +0200, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> The keepalive program has two procedures: PING, and PONG.
> Both are used only in asynchronous messages and the sender doesn't wait
> for any reply. However, the party which receives PING messages is
> supposed to react by sending PONG message the other party, but no
> explicit binding between PING and PONG messages is made. For backward
> compatibility neither server nor client are allowed to send keepalive
> messages before checking that remote party supports them.
> ---
> Notes:
>     Version 3 was ACKed provided I do the following changes:
> 
>     Version 4:
>     - update systemptap functions with the new protocol
>     - s/KEEPALIVE_VERSION/KEEPALIVE_PROTOCOL_VERSION/ to make stp generator
>       happy
>     
>     Version 3:
>     - remove ADVERTISE message which is no longer used
>     
>     Version 2:
>     - no change
> 
>  .gitignore                     |    1 +
>  src/Makefile.am                |   19 ++++++++++++++-----
>  src/rpc/virkeepaliveprotocol.x |    7 +++++++
>  3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 src/rpc/virkeepaliveprotocol.x

ACK

Daniel
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