Ed Swierk <[email protected]> wrote on 02/15/2010 11:15:11 PM:
> > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Stefan Berger <[email protected]> wrote: > > This patch fixes the problem with the tear down of the macvtap device > > when issuing a 'virsh destroy' by moving the tear down block past the > > point of killing the Qemu process. It seems necessary to loop at least > > once in the case of 'virsh destory' since the device seems to be busy > > for a while after the Qemu process has been killed. This also still > > properly tears down the macvtap device when the VM is 'virsh shutdown'ed > > or halted from inside. > > I think it's fine to check just once, before replacing an existing > macvtap interface with a new one, that the existing interface's fd can > be opened, to avoid stomping on an interface owned by someone else. > > On shutdown, I think it's safe to assume that an interface whose name, > macaddr and type matches is in fact the interface it created. I think > it should just go ahead and delete it without again trying to open the > fd. Otherwise we end up with such annoying races, e.g. if qemu hangs > or takes a long time to shut down, you end up leaving the orphaned > interfaces sitting around as well as the hung qemu process. > As an RFC, now attached the patch that tears down the macvtap device upon termination of the Qemu process without checking whether the device(s) with the given MAC address are in use. Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <[email protected]> > --Ed
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