Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [OCaml] Release the global lock during some hypercalls

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 18:48 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Jonathan Davies writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH] [OCaml] Release the global lock 
> during some hypercalls"):
> > Since libxc is re-entrant, there is no need for the OCaml bindings to 
> > prevent more than one thread from entering libxc concurrently.
> 
> Well, libxc is supposed to be re-entrant apart from certain calls,
> yes.

Which ones aren't? Either I'm grepping the wrong thing in xenctrl.h or
it is documented somewhere else (OK, I admit it, there's a third, more
likely, option...)

> 
> As the main user of the ocaml bindings is xapi, can you confirm that
> you've run this change through a good test of xapi (eg, the Citrix
> XenRT suite) ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ian.
> 
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