From: Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@eu.citrix.com>
To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Mihir Nanavati <mihirn@cs.ubc.ca>,
xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libxl: Use xenbus to communicate with xenstore if the socket fails
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 10:53:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D00B53F.2020903@eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1291890116.13966.4619.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>
On 09/12/10 10:21, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> I think there was at least 1 other practical differences, but it
>> seems to have eluded me.
Thinking more about it, it might be related to timeout, and/or it might
be: If xenstored has decided to not answer you, your thread is dead in
the water, because you end up stuck in kernel land forever (wait not
interruptible aka D).
(It might have been related to historical reasons, however it could
still be happening in the unlikely event of xenstored dying)
--
Vincent
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-09 10:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-08 20:47 [PATCH] libxl: Use xenbus to communicate with xenstore if the socket fails Mihir Nanavati
2010-12-09 9:17 ` Ian Campbell
2010-12-09 9:59 ` Mihir Nanavati
2010-12-09 10:37 ` Ian Campbell
2010-12-09 10:06 ` Vincent Hanquez
2010-12-09 10:21 ` Ian Campbell
2010-12-09 10:53 ` Vincent Hanquez [this message]
2010-12-09 11:39 ` Ian Campbell
2010-12-10 6:52 ` Mihir Nanavati
2010-12-10 9:07 ` Ian Campbell
2010-12-10 9:38 ` Mihir Nanavati
2010-12-10 9:48 ` Ian Campbell
2010-12-10 9:55 ` Mihir Nanavati
2010-12-10 10:03 ` Ian Campbell
2010-12-10 10:34 ` Mihir Nanavati
2010-12-10 10:45 ` Ian Campbell
2010-12-10 11:10 ` Mihir Nanavati
2010-12-10 11:24 ` Ian Campbell
2010-12-10 11:39 ` Mihir Nanavati
2010-12-10 11:52 ` Ian Campbell
2010-12-10 17:49 ` Ian Jackson
2010-12-13 17:19 ` [PATCH] libxl: Use xenbus to communicate with xenstore if the socket failsx Stefano Stabellini
2010-12-10 17:28 ` [PATCH] libxl: Use xenbus to communicate with xenstore if the socket fails Ian Jackson
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