After sending the 'device_del' command for a PCI passthrough device,
we wait until QEMU has effectively deleted the device, this involves
executing more QMP commands. While waiting, libxl hold the connection.
It isn't necessary to hold the connection and it prevents others from
making progress, so this patch releases the QMP connection.
For background:
e.g., when a guest is created with several pci passthrough
attached, on `xl destroy` all the devices needs to be detach, and
this is usually what happens:
- 'device_del' called for the 1st pci device
- 'query-pci' checking if pci still there, it is
- wait 1s
- 'query-pci' checking again, and it's gone
-> now the same can be done for the second pci device, so
plenty of waiting on others when pci detach can be done in
parallel.
On shutdown, libxl usually keeps waiting because QEMU never
releases the device because the guest kernel never responds QEMU's
unplug queries. So detaching of the 1st device waits until a
timeout stops it, and since the same timeout is setup at the same
time for the other devices to detach, the 'device_del' command is
never sent for those.
Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>
