Re: [Xen-devel] FW: Cancelling asynchronous operations in libxl

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 04:08:31PM +0000, Simon Beaumont wrote:
> We're in the process of porting xenopsd[1] to libxl, rather than driving 
> libxc manually.
> 
> Using our libxc-based backend, we are able to cancel operations. For 
> operations that are using XenStore watches we wrap these in a 
> cancellable_watch[2], and for operations that make use of a subprocess we 
> send SIGKILL when we wish to cancel the associated task. We would then 
> instrument any necessary cleanup by hand on a best-effort basis.
> 
> With the move to libxl, a lot of this control will be abstracted away and it 
> is unclear how best to allow long-running tasks to be cancelled. It seems 
> most of these operations could be executed asynchronously but we wonder if it 
> is possible to cancel them, or how we could add cancellation functionality to 
> these operations?

Are there specific operations that you are focusing on to cancel?

Or is this mostly of 'the guest is doing something and does not seem
to have a vnc/console, lets kill it' ?

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Si
> 
> [1]: https://github.com/xapi-project/xenopsd
> [2]: 
> https://github.com/xapi-project/xenopsd/blob/master/xc/cancel_utils.ml#L101
> 
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