[libvirt] [PATCH 0/3] Fixes for issues caused by IOThreads

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Tue Sep 16 00:55:28 UTC 2014


On 09/15/2014 06:13 PM, John Ferlan wrote:
> Well I guess it happens to everyone - hopefully only once though...

Yep, the brown bag of shame lets you learn from mistakes rather quickly :)

> 
> The IOThreads code really messed up a few things - git bisection for
> the build is broken as of 5f6ad32c733a3bd158938aecabb0508a434ece95,
> but that's resolved by 938fb12fad6d15c9fdb73f998c4e0ec1e278721f
> which adds the 'niothreadspin && iothreadspin' definitions.
> 
> Secondarily it seems things got worse, because guests weren't able to
> be started because of a very bad logic error (<= 0 vs. < 0 and specific
> check that 0 is "OK" (meaning no IOThreads).
> 
> How that got by own self testing I'm still not quite sure, but it did
> and it's a mea culpa for that.
> 
> Anyway, patch 1 fixes the running issue... Patch 2 fixes some spacing
> issues that Eric pointed out privately (prefer "i + 1" vs. "i+1").
> Patch 3 just makes sure to use the right cgroup setup/init parameters
> since there is no "iothread0"
> 
> John Ferlan (3):
>   qemu: Fix iothreads issue
>   qemu_cgroup: Adjust spacing around incrementor
>   qemu: Fix call in qemuDomainSetNumaParamsLive for virCgroupNewIOThread

Thanks for the fast fixes.  I confirm that patch 1 fixes the regression
in starting my dummy transient domain.  ACK series.

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

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