[libvirt] [PATCH v1 06/11] network: Create real network status files

Laine Stump laine at laine.org
Mon Dec 3 21:11:14 UTC 2012


On 12/03/2012 10:55 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> On 30.11.2012 20:04, Laine Stump wrote:
>> On 11/19/2012 11:51 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>>> Currently, we are only keeping a inactive XML configuration
>>> in status dir. This is no longer enough as we need to keep
>>> this class_id attribute so we don't overwrite old entries
>>> when the daemon restarts. 
>> Aha! So you're looking at solving the problem in a different way - save
>> everything to the status file rather than recomputing it as you restart.
>>
>> While I like the idea of having the network status file hold this
>> information, I think its reliability is suspect. What if a guest's
>> process is terminated while libvirtd isn't running? Or what if libvirtd
>> exits unexpectedly after the commands to setup bandwidth have been
>> executed, but before the new network state file has been written (or
>> vice versa, depending on the code).
>>
>> Also, networks aren't properly shut down when the host is being shutdown
>> (there's no equivalent to the libvirt-guests service, although at least
>> one person a month or two ago requested it).
> If guest is being shut down, the networkReleaseActualDevice() is called,
> isn't it? And this should update the floor_sum. Even if libvirtd is
> restarted and qemu process dies meanwhile, qemuProcessStop is called and
> this calls the networkReleaseActualDevice() so I think we are safe here.

If you've tested this and it works properly, then okay.




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