dae16374dd
When firewalld is restarted or has its rules reloaded, we trigger a
reload of the nwfilter driver. This is done directly in the main
event loop thread which is a bad idea.
In a previous commit we fixed a actual deadlock problem with the
virStateReload API, when triggered from SIGHUP:
commit 33c6eb9689eb51dfe31dd05b24b3b6b1c948c267
Author: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Date: Thu Mar 8 15:04:48 2018 -0700
libvirtd: fix potential deadlock when reloading
The same deadlock problem previously existed with the firewalld reload
trigger, however, today it is not quite so series. The QEMU driver uses
a private event thread for each VM, so the particular deadlock would
not occur. None the less during the time the filters are reloading all
use of the event loop is blocked, which prevents APIs being serviced.
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Libvirt API for virtualization
Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
For some of these hypervisors, it provides a stateful management daemon which runs on the virtualization host allowing access to the API both by non-privileged local users and remote users.
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