On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:43:22 +0800 Wen Congyang <we...@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > Having said that, I wonder if postponing want-to-be-async commands to 1.2 is > > a good thing. Two solutions other than waiting: > > > > 1. Add synchronous versions of them, if possible (I think this is possible > > for the dump command) > > I agree with this. libvirt uses migrate command to do dump now, and it cannot > work > when the guest uses host's device. We need to fix this bug as quickly as > possible. > So we need dump command recently. So I think we can add synchronous versions > of > dump command. Is it OK? If it is OK, I will send the synchronous versions of > dump command. I'd be fine with this because this command is expected to be used when the guest crashes, right? In this case, I _guess_ that holding the global mutex for a long time is not the end of the world, as the world has ended already :) Far from ideal, of course, but is the best we can do right now. Anthony, do you have objections?
