Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/3] libxl: domain destroy fixes

[Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 02:08:33PM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> This small series of patches fixes some issues wrt domain destroy in
> the libxl driver.  The primary motivation for this work is to
> prevent locking the virDomainObj during long running destroy operations
> on large memory domains.
> 
> Patch 1 moves job acquisition from libxlDomainStart to it's callers so
> they have more control over when the job is acquired.  Patch 2 fixes a
> few spots where we never acquired a job during domain destroy.  Patch 3
> contains the interesting change, where the virDomainObj is unlocked
> during the long-running destroy operation.
> 
> This series wraps up my work to improve parallel OpenStack Tempest runs
> against the libxl driver.  With libvirt.git master + this series + a
> patched libxl [1], I've successfully run a reproducer that was hitting
> the same issues encountered by Tempest.
> 
> [1] libxl commits from xen.git: 93699882d, f1335f0d, 4783c99a, 1c91d6fba,
> and 188e9c54.  I'll contact the stable branch maintainers and ask them
> to include these commits in the next Xen 4.4.x and 4.5.x releases.

Hi,

I gave a try to this series with OpenStack Tempest. And it is much better.

Thanks!

-- 
Anthony PERARD

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