Re: [Xen-devel] Relevance of global lock (/var/lock/xl) in xl tool

[Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Please try to avoid top posting, it breaks the flow of the
conversation.

+ Ian and Wei.

On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 08:30:47AM +0200, Fanny Dwargee wrote:
> I'd like to point out that a patch for getting ride of the lock was
> provided by Dmitry Isaykin on March but unfortunately seems that nobody
> noticed.
> 
> https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2019-03/msg00567.html

That seems like a sensible patch, iff indeed the lock is only needed
for autoballooning memory.

Ian, Wei, do you think this is a sensible approach? Are there other
parts of xl/libxl that rely on the lock?

Roger.

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