[Libvir] Re: [PATCH] Python bindings now generate exceptions for libvirt errors (third version)

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Wed Mar 28 15:13:53 UTC 2007


Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 03:55:24PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 10:45:34AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>>>   It would be nice though if each time you look whether the domain is
>>> defined or not, libvirt could give teh answer directly instead of going
>>> though the potentially expensive Info call. This would also require
>>> to double check invalidation of the _virDomain cached data at the 
>>> proper places.
>> The virDomainGetInfo is a fast-path call - its either a direct hypercall,
>> or a hypercall via the proxy - we never make an expensive XenD call unless
>> they've broken the proxy somehow. 
> 
>   I was thinking about the upcoming remote support, and an RPC is expensive
> for this kind of informations IMHO.

Just what I was going to say :-)

Rich.


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