On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 08:12:44AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: > On 03/12/2018 07:49 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > An update of: > > > > v1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-12/msg04618.html > > v2: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-12/msg04706.html > > v3: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-12/msg04892.html > > v4: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-02/msg00950.html > > > > This enables fixing a long standing problem that libvirt has with > > starting up QEMU. It has to busy-wait retrying connect() on the QMP > > monitor socket until QEMU finally creates & listens on it, but at same > > time must be careful to not wait forever if QEMU exits. > > > > With this patch series, libvirt can simply pass in a pre-opened UNIX domain > > socket file descriptor, which it can immediately connect to with no > > busy-wait. > > > > NB, this will generate one expected failure with patchew / checkpatch.pl > > > > > Changed in v5: > > > > - Docs typo (Eric) > > - Fix errno setting in int parsing code (Eric) > > > > > Daniel P. Berrangé (9): > > char: don't silently skip tn3270 protocol init when TLS is enabled > > cutils: add qemu_strtoi & qemu_strtoui parsers for int/unsigned int > > types > > sockets: pull code for testing IP availability out of specific test > > sockets: strengthen test suite IP protocol availability checks > > sockets: move fd_is_socket() into common sockets code > > sockets: check that the named file descriptor is a socket > > sockets: allow SocketAddress 'fd' to reference numeric file > > descriptors > > char: refactor parsing of socket address information > > char: allow passing pre-opened socket file descriptor at startup > > Whose tree should this go through? It's got some QAPI impact, so I'm okay > including it in my QAPI pull request later today, if there is no better > tree...
These days I usually send PR for stuff touching sockets code myself. So unless someone else strongly prefers to take it via their tree for sake of any easy of conflict / merge resolution, I can do a PR once acked. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
