[libvirt] [PATCH 10/15] qemu: Error out when domain starting if the cdbfilter setting conflicts

[Eric Blake]

On 12/05/2012 04:14 AM, Osier Yang wrote:
> On 2012年12月05日 19:03, Jiri Denemark wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 18:54:42 +0800, Osier Yang wrote:
>> ...
>>>> However, the mainly reason I choosed to use a sub-list of domain names
>>>> is for future extenstion, I.E. Assuming there are other disk setting
>>>> (you never known how many they will be), we have to guarantee they are
>>>> same among guests in future. Looking up the disk def with domain and
>>>> disk path gives us much flexibility IMHO.
>>>>
>>>
>>> So the point of the argument is: the trade between the flexibility and
>>> the uncomfortable locks.
>>
>> OK, I guess we can store more info in the sharedDisks list (either
>> today or
>> later when we need it), we may even store the domain list there, but
>> we don't
>> definitely want to go through all the domains to get the required
>> details.
>>
> 
> I think it should be just a few guests share the disk in practice,
> which means in practice the sharedDisks->disks[i]->ndomains should
> be short. And that's the other reason why I can live with the
> locks. Though in theory, it can be all domains (assuming it's large
> number) share the disk.
> 
> The other question is: Aren't we already go through all domain objects
> in many places?

I'm stepping in a bit late, and haven't fully looked at the series yet,
but one of the things that I would love for libvirt to someday have is a
way to get a list of all virStorageVolPtr associated with any given
virDomainPtr, and conversely, given a virStorageVolPtr, return a list of
all virDomainPtr that use the file (whether directly, or whether as a
backing file).  To get to that point, I envision having a way for every
<disk> element to be tied to a virStorageVolPtr, even if it means the
implicit creation of a transient virStoragePoolPtr directory-based pool
for any <disk> specified without an explicit pool.  Then, creation of a
new domain, as well as hot-plugging of any disks to an existing domain,
will update each affected virStorageVolPtr; and you really _should_ be
maintaining a list of all associated domains with the disk object.
Thus, I think searching whether a shared disk is allowed should be a
matter of asking that shared disk what domains it is already associated
with, rather than asking each domain whether it uses the shared disk.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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