[libvirt] [PATCH 04/15] Break virNetServer into virNetSubServers

Martin Kletzander mkletzan at redhat.com
Fri Apr 17 11:50:16 UTC 2015


On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 11:22:32AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 04:46:39PM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
>> Each subserver has its own RPC programs, services, workers, keepalive,
>> clients etc.  Hence (possible) multiple subservers are properly
>> separated.
>>
>> The part in remote.c is just mechanical, the same applies to most of the
>> code movement from virnetserver.c to virnetsubserver.c.
>
>So, the problem we're facing here is that virNetServer is really filling
>two distinct roles in one class - it is the thing that manages the overall
>daemon process state, as well as managing the server connection/services.
>
>So the splitting up you're doing does rather make sense. I wonder if we
>could name it differently though. eg have virNetDaemon to handle the
>process level stuff, and virNetServer to handle the network level stuff.
>So what is in virnetserver.c moves to virnetdaemon.c and your new
>virnetsubserver.c becomes the new virnetserver.c
>

Your naming makes more sense to me, I'll switch to that.

[...]
>> @@ -76,10 +81,12 @@ int virNetServerAddSignalHandler(virNetServerPtr srv,
>>                                   void *opaque);
>>
>>  int virNetServerAddService(virNetServerPtr srv,
>> +                           int subServerID,
>>                             virNetServerServicePtr svc,
>>                             const char *mdnsEntryName);
>>
>>  int virNetServerAddProgram(virNetServerPtr srv,
>> +                           int subServerID,
>>                             virNetServerProgramPtr prog);
>
>How about just moving these two methods to take the virNetSubServerPtr as
>their first arg, instead of needing to pass virNetServer + subServerID ?
>Not a big deal either way though.
>

Because that was a really old and stupid idea :D  Not dealing with the
ID is better and more readable.  I wanted to have better identifier
than integer, but I don't know whether using string would be worth it.
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