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From: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
To: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
	wei.liu2@citrix.com, stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xen.org, dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/13] libxl: provide a function to retrieve the xenstore domain id
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 16:38:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <22157.17138.890808.880787@mariner.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1452095954.21055.98.camel@citrix.com>

Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 03/13] libxl: provide a function to retrieve the xenstore domain id"):
> On Fri, 2015-12-18 at 15:10 +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
> > The latter. It will be used in patch 13 to decide which domain to
> > stop via "xl shutdown --all".
> 
> ITYM "not stop".
> 
> libxl already has interfaces for getting info about a
> domain, libxl_domain_info libxl_list_domain etc, it seems like this
> property should be added to that data rather than introducing a special
> purpose API to get it. Especially given that xl shutdown already calls
> libxl_list_domain.
> 
> I'm unsure if (lib)xl ought to be special casing XS in this way, as opposed
> to adding a more generic concept such as e.g. permanent domains, which
> would be true for the xs domain but also for other special domains in the
> future and could even be controlled by the user or toolstack (I'm thinking
> you might want to set the flag on a driver domain for example).

Indeed, I think a more general concept would be sensible.  Stub dm
domains are already handled specially I think.

Ian.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-06 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-18 13:14 [PATCH v2 00/13] xenstore: make it easier to run xenstore in a domain Juergen Gross
2015-12-18 13:14 ` [PATCH v2 01/13] xen: add xenstore domain flag to hypervisor Juergen Gross
2015-12-18 13:23   ` Andrew Cooper
2016-01-05 15:46   ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-05 15:59     ` Juergen Gross
2015-12-18 13:14 ` [PATCH v2 02/13] libxc: support new xenstore domain flag in libxc Juergen Gross
2016-01-06 15:52   ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-07  6:08     ` Juergen Gross
2016-01-07 10:12       ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-18 13:14 ` [PATCH v2 03/13] libxl: provide a function to retrieve the xenstore domain id Juergen Gross
2015-12-18 13:53   ` Andrew Cooper
2015-12-18 14:10     ` Juergen Gross
2016-01-06 15:59       ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-06 16:38         ` Ian Jackson [this message]
2016-01-07  5:37         ` Juergen Gross
2016-01-07 10:11           ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-07 10:44             ` Juergen Gross
2016-01-07 10:55               ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-07 11:21                 ` Juergen Gross
2016-01-07 11:36                   ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-07 13:17                     ` Wei Liu
2016-01-07 12:40           ` Wei Liu
2016-01-07 12:57             ` Juergen Gross
2016-01-07 13:13               ` Wei Liu
2015-12-18 13:14 ` [PATCH v2 04/13] xenstore: move init-xenstore-domain to tools/helpers Juergen Gross
2016-01-06 16:03   ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-07  6:12     ` Juergen Gross
2015-12-18 13:14 ` [PATCH v2 05/13] libxl: move xen-init-dom0 " Juergen Gross
2016-01-06 16:12   ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-07  6:15     ` Juergen Gross
2016-01-07 10:12       ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-06 16:28   ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-07  6:39     ` Juergen Gross
2015-12-18 13:14 ` [PATCH v2 06/13] xenstore: destroy xenstore domain in case of error after creating it Juergen Gross
2015-12-18 13:14 ` [PATCH v2 07/13] xenstore: add error messages to init-xenstore-domain Juergen Gross
2015-12-18 13:14 ` [PATCH v2 08/13] xenstore: modify init-xenstore-domain parameter syntax Juergen Gross
2016-01-06 16:21   ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-07  6:34     ` Juergen Gross
2016-01-07 10:23       ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-07 10:28         ` Juergen Gross
2015-12-18 13:14 ` [PATCH v2 09/13] xenstore: make use of the "xenstore domain" flag Juergen Gross
2016-01-06 16:23   ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-07  6:36     ` Juergen Gross
2015-12-18 13:14 ` [PATCH v2 10/13] xenstore: add init-xenstore-domain parameter to specify cmdline Juergen Gross
2015-12-18 13:14 ` [PATCH v2 11/13] tools: split up xen-init-dom0.c Juergen Gross
2016-01-06 16:26   ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-06 16:33     ` Wei Liu
2016-01-07 10:26       ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-18 13:14 ` [PATCH v2 12/13] xenstore: write xenstore domain data to xenstore Juergen Gross
2016-01-06 16:27   ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-18 13:14 ` [PATCH v2 13/13] tools: don't stop xenstore domain when stopping dom0 Juergen Gross
2015-12-18 14:42   ` Andrew Cooper
2015-12-18 14:53     ` Juergen Gross
2016-01-06 16:33       ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-07  6:52         ` Juergen Gross
2016-01-07 10:34           ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-07 10:45             ` Juergen Gross

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