Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/4] libxl: set the device model version earlier in xenstore

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 04:16:19PM +0200, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Apr 2016, Wei Liu wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 07:45:26PM +0200, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> > > So libxl doesn't have to pass the build info around just to get the device
> > > model used by the guest. This allows to simplify
> > > libxl__device_nic_setdefault.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > I have some reservation on this approach. I would rather passing around
> > a struct than accessing xenstore. The latter is much more expensive.
> 
> Sorry, my commit log wasn't very clear. The struct can't always be passed 
> around, since it's only available at domain creation time, so we also need 
> to xenstore way for hotplug.
> 
> Due to that, I think it's simpler to always use it, instead of having two 
> different approaches depending on whether the build info struct is 
> provided or not. TBH, this is only one xenstore read, so I would rather 
> prefer to do it always this way in order to have simpler code.
> 

In this case:

Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>

Wei.

> Roger.


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