Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Xend transaction reduction breaks migration

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 15/11/07 18:46, "Keir Fraser" <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 15/11/07 18:39, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> all happen in one large transaction. Oddly though, I tried to be careful so
>> that I only changed the codepath for the 'xm list' operation (well the SEXPR
>> call to the list operation). Other operations like create, save, restore
>> ought to be left using fine grained transactions as before.
> 
> I'll have another look at nearby changesets in xen-unstable then. Yours
> doesn't really look all that likely to cause this problem, except that the
> empirical evidence does point at it.

It is your patch. The readDomTxn() functions and friends should prepend the
dompath, not the vmpath.

We wouldn't notice this normally since self.console_port is not actually
really used after domain building. So we have to race the migration thread
to get the assertion to fire, and that happens fairly rarely.

 -- Keir



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