Re: [Xen-tools] Re: [PATCH 1/3] Recover transaction on restart, give transactions IDs

[Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 05:58:15AM +0100, Christian Limpach wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 02:37:10PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > But transactions are a privileged operations (either in-kernel
> > or /proc/xen/xenbus), and are short, so I don't see it as being an
> > issue.  If it becomes an issue, I'd much rather do transaction migration
> > than present a horrible API to xenstore users for such a corner case.
> 
> No, please don't go there, transaction migration is a horrible idea!

Let me elaborate a bit on this:  I think we should not make it
a requirement that we are outside of a transaction only because
it is an easy solution to the problem of save/restore at inconvenient
times.  I agree that we can convince ourselves that it is reasonable
to have this requirement now, but maybe we'll find this to be an
unreasonable restriction eventually...

    christian


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