[libvirt] [PATCH] Revert "rpc: Discard non-blocking calls only when necessary"

Jiri Denemark jdenemar at redhat.com
Tue May 22 21:40:51 UTC 2012


On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:34:33 -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 05/22/2012 07:34 AM, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> > This reverts commit b1e374a7ac56927cfe62435179bf0bba1e08b372, which was
> > rather bad since I failed to consider all sides of the issue. Thus, the
> > reverted patch actually breaks more than what it fixes and clients
> > (which may even be libvirtd during p2p migrations) will likely end up
> > with a corrupted dispatch queue.
> > ---
> > 
> > I will send proper replacement for the reverted patch later once I'm convinced
> > it's correct (more than I was convinced the original one was correct) :-P
> > 
> >  src/rpc/virnetclient.c |   21 ++++++++++++---------
> >  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> > 
> 
> ACK for being a straight revert, although I would hold off pushing this
> until the cleaner replacement has been reviewed and can be pushed at the
> same time.
> 
> Just so I understand, how was this patch causing new problems?

The replacement patch will need some time to settle down and I'd rather push
this revert soon. Eric agreed on irc. Thus I made the comment better in
describing what I failed to consider in the original patch and pushed this
revert.

Jirka




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