Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [OCaml] Release the global lock during some hypercalls

[Jonathan Davies <Jonathan.Davies@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Jackson wrote:
> Jonathan Davies writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH] [OCaml] Release the global
> lock during some hypercalls"):
> > Since libxc is re-entrant, there is no need for the OCaml bindings to
> prevent more than one thread from entering libxc concurrently.
> 
> Well, libxc is supposed to be re-entrant apart from certain calls,
> yes.
> 
> As the main user of the ocaml bindings is xapi, can you confirm that
> you've run this change through a good test of xapi (eg, the Citrix
> XenRT suite) ?

It hasn't yet gone through XenRT, although I've done some manual xapi stress 
testing in addition to some basic functional verification tests.

It sounds like you'd prefer it to go through XenRT before accepting it here. 
I'll do so, and then confirm if all is well.

Thanks,
Jonathan

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