[Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-changelog] Simpler domid allocation.

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think you misread the allocation scheme -- it still allocates 
increasing domid's in turn but just doesn;t arbitrarily decide to wrap 
at e.g., domid==100. So your fears over immediate domid reuse are 
unfounded.
I understand your fears w.r.t. decentralised tools. One thing I think 
we will end up doing is adding the domain uuid (big unique domain 
identifier) to Xen. Xen will still work in terms of the short 16-bit 
domids, but control tools will be able to read out this extra unique 
key value which they can use to protect themselves against domid reuse 
in the absence of some other trusted authority. Invaluable for 
debugging screwed-up machine states too. :-)
 -- Keir

On 15 Jul 2005, at 15:40, Anthony Liguori wrote:

> This change worries me a bit because I believe it increases the 
> likelihood of subtle race conditions in the tools.  It's now likely 
> that if one destroys a domain and immediately creates a new domain, 
> when the tools finally see the VIRQ, they'll be very confused since 
> the domid appears to be valid.
> The situation is worse for a destroyed domain.  A destroy does not 
> generate a VIRQ in which case if the destroy and create happen within 
> whatever the tools polling interval is, it will appear to the tool 
> that the destroy just didn't work.
> The solution would be to have a completely serialized tool chain 
> although that prevents having multiple simulatenous tools running at 
> the same time or a distribute tool chain where most things don't 
> require a central daemon.
> The old domid allocation was odd but it kept life easier by making 
> race conditions difficult to create.
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