[libvirt] [PATCH v2] qemu: Introduce caching whether /dev/kvm is accessible

[Marc Hartmayer]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 10:18 AM +0100, "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 09:31:50AM +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 03:07:59PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>> > On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 03:45:36PM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>> > > On 10/30/2018 02:46 PM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > It is kernel problem. In my testing, the moment I call:
>> > > >
>> > > >  ioctl(kvm, KVM_CREATE_VM, 0);
>> > >
>> > > Okay, I have to retract this claim. 'udevadm monitor' shows some events:
>> > >
>> > > KERNEL[3631.129645] change   /devices/virtual/misc/kvm (misc)
>> > > UDEV  [3631.130816] change   /devices/virtual/misc/kvm (misc)
>> > >
>> > > and stopping udevd leaves all three times untouched. So it is udev after
>> > > all. I just don't know how to find the rule that is causing the issue.
>> > > Anyway, as for this patch, I think we can merge it in the end, can't we?
>> >
>> > Not really. Udev is in use everywhere, so this behaviour makes the
>> > patch useless in practice, even though it is technically right in
>> > theory :-(
>> >
>>
>> Does it?  With this behaviour we still do the "expensive" work after any machine
>> has started.  But for one machine starting it still has the effect of running it
>> only once.  And we *need* to run it for each machine unless we also cache the
>> result per (at least) user:group of that machine as every machine can run under
>> different user:group.
>
> Yes, with the current patch it still rechecks it for each VM startup

But that happens only because of udev (see Michal’s answer).

> , but
> I was going to suggest the caching of this is simply put in a global static
> variable as there's no reason to record this device permissions state in
> the per VM caps cache.

I’m not sure I understand you correctly, but this patch doesn’t use the
VM/QEMU capabilities cache (that would be 'struct _virQEMUCaps') for the
caching. Instead it uses 'struct _virQEMUCapsCachePriv' and this struct
is initialized only once when initializing the QEMU driver. This should
be pretty similar to your proposal with the global static variable.

>
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
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