[libvirt] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/6] Introduce monitor 'wait' command (v2)

[Avi Kivity]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> The wait command will pause the monitor the command was issued in until a new
> event becomes available.  Events are queued if there isn't a waiter present.
> The wait command completes after a single event is available.
>   

How do you stop a wait if there are no pending events?


> Today, we queue events indefinitely but in the future, I suspect we'll drop
> events that are older than a certain amount of time to avoid infinitely
> allocating memory for long running VMs.
>   

This queueing plug the race where an event happens immediately after a 
wait completes.  But it could be avoided completely by having 
asynchronous notifications on a single monitor.

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