Xen devel - Jan 2011 - [PATCH 3/5] qemu-xen: disable buffering on the save file for stubdoms

We need to issue reads with the exact number of bytes to read the
qemu-xen save file, and to do that this patch disables buffering on all
the savevm reads/writes for stubdoms.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>

diff --git a/savevm.c b/savevm.c
index b66f7e2..71a57eb 100644
--- a/savevm.c
+++ b/savevm.c
@@ -133,7 +133,13 @@ void qemu_announce_self(void)
 /***********************************************************/
 /* savevm/loadvm support */
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_STUBDOM
+/* disable buffering for stubdoms because we need to issue reads for the
+ * exact number of bytes */
+#define IO_BUF_SIZE 1
+#else
 #define IO_BUF_SIZE 32768
+#endif
 
 struct QEMUFile {
     QEMUFilePutBufferFunc *put_buffer;
@@ -303,6 +309,10 @@ QEMUFile *qemu_fopen(const char *filename, const char
*mode)
     if (!s->outfile)
         goto fail;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_STUBDOM
+    setvbuf(s->outfile, NULL, _IONBF, 0);
+#endif
+
     if (!strcmp(mode, "wb"))
         return qemu_fopen_ops(s, file_put_buffer, NULL, file_close, NULL);
     else if (!strcmp(mode, "rb"))

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Stefano Stabellini writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/5] qemu-xen: disable
buffering on the save file for stubdoms"):
> We need to issue reads with the exact number of bytes to read the
> qemu-xen save file, and to do that this patch disables buffering on all
> the savevm reads/writes for stubdoms.
Applied, thanks.

Ian.

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