[libvirt] mingw: test-poll pipe part fails

[Bastien ROUCARIES]

n Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Bastien ROUCARIES
<roucaries.bastien at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have some code if you want that work. If you could test, I wil lsend
> you. I have no time to create m4 and proper gnulib integration. It is
> up to you

Please test, I do not even have compiled it.

> Bastien
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 09:31:59AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>>> On 07/19/2011 09:30 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>> >>I'm wondering if the problem here is that libvirt is trying to use the
>>> >>pipe-to-self mechanism as a fundamental event loop idiom.  That is, the
>>> >>reason libvirt is calling poll is in order to minimize CPU until
>>> >>something interesting happens, where interesting includes needing to
>>> >>wake up a helper thread to do an action inside locks in response to the
>>> >>receipt of a signal.
>>> >>
>>> >>Maybe you are on to something, and replacing all uses of pipe() with
>>> >>virPipeToSelf() (which uses pipe() for efficiency on Linux, but
>>> >>socketpair() on mingw), would allow libvirt to continue to use the
>>> >>pipe-to-self idiom while also using fds that can actually be poll'd on
>>> >>mingw.
>>> >
>>> >IIRC, we never resolved this for the last release. I think we should
>>> >do as you suggest and just use socketpair() on Win32. Given the way
>>> >in which libvirt uses these capabilities, I don't think the overheads
>>> >of socketpair() vs pipe() are so onerous that we need worry about an
>>> >even more fancy Win32 impl or eventfd for linux. Of course if someone
>>> >wants todo a full job for gnulib meawhile, we won't complain...
>>>
>>> Well, right now, we don't even have socketpair() for Win32.  We'd
>>> have to wire up some other native APIs for this to work.
>>
>> Oh I read your mail above as indicating we did have socketpair()
>> on Mingw32. A quick look through google, suggests most people
>> go down the route of creating a TCP socket bound to localhost
>> for this purpose.
>>
>> Daniel
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