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There have been some reports that, due to libvirt always trying to assign the lowest numbered macvtap / tap device name possible, a new guest would sometimes be started using the same tap device name as previously used by another guest that is in the process of being destroyed *as the new guest is starting. In some cases this has led to, for example, the old guest's qemuProcessStop() code deleting a port from an OVS switch that had just been re-added by the new guest (because the port name is based on only the device name using the port). Similar problems can happen (and I believe have) with nwfilter rules and bandwidth rules (which are both instantiated based on the name of the tap device). A couple patches have been previously proposed to change the ordering of startup and shutdown processing, or to put a mutex around everything related to the tap/macvtap device name usage, but in the end no matter what you do there will still be possible holes, because the device could be deleted outside libvirt's control (for example, regular tap devices are automatically deleted when the qemu process terminates, and that isn't always initiated by libvirt but could instead happen completely asynchronously - libvirt then has no control over the ordering of shutdown operations, and no opportunity to protect it with a mutex.) But this only happens if a new device is created at the same time as one is being deleted. We can effectively eliminate the chance of this happening if we end the practice of always looking for the lowest numbered available device name, and instead just keep an integer that is incremented each time we need a new device name. At some point it will need to wrap back around to 0 (in order to avoid the IFNAMSIZ 15 character limit if nothing else), and we can't guarantee that the new name really will be the *least* recently used name, but "math" suggests that it will be *much* less common that we'll try to re-use the *most* recently used name. This patch implements such a counter for macvtap/macvlan, replacing the existing, and much more complicated, "ID reservation" system. The counter is set according to whatever macvtap/macvlan devices are already in use by guests when libvirtd is started, incremented each time a new device name is needed, and wraps back to 0 when either INT_MAX is reached, or when the resulting device name would be longer than IFNAMSIZ-1 characters (which actually is what happens when the template for the device name is "maccvtap%d"). The result is that no macvtap name will be re-used until the host has created (and possibly destroyed) 99,999,999 devices. Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
libvirt library code README
===========================
The directory provides the bulk of the libvirt codebase. Everything
except for the libvirtd daemon and client tools. The build uses a
large number of libtool convenience libraries - one for each child
directory, and then links them together for the final libvirt.so,
although some bits get linked directly to libvirtd daemon instead.
The files directly in this directory are supporting the public API
entry points & data structures.
There are two core shared modules to be aware of:
* util/ - a collection of shared APIs that can be used by any
code. This directory is always in the include path
for all things built
* conf/ - APIs for parsing / manipulating all the official XML
files used by the public API. This directory is only
in the include path for driver implementation modules
* vmx/ - VMware VMX config handling (used by esx/ and vmware/)
Then there are the hypervisor implementations:
* bhyve - bhyve - The BSD Hypervisor
* esx/ - VMware ESX and GSX support using vSphere API over SOAP
* hyperv/ - Microsoft Hyper-V support using WinRM
* lxc/ - Linux Native Containers
* openvz/ - OpenVZ containers using cli tools
* qemu/ - QEMU / KVM using qemu CLI/monitor
* remote/ - Generic libvirt native RPC client
* test/ - A "mock" driver for testing
* vbox/ - Virtual Box using native API
* vmware/ - VMware Workstation and Player using the vmrun tool
* xen/ - Xen using hypercalls, XenD SEXPR & XenStore
Finally some secondary drivers that are shared for several HVs.
Currently these are used by LXC, OpenVZ, QEMU and Xen drivers.
The ESX, Hyper-V, Remote, Test & VirtualBox drivers all
implement the secondary drivers directly
* cpu/ - CPU feature management
* interface/ - Host network interface management
* network/ - Virtual NAT networking
* nwfilter/ - Network traffic filtering rules
* node_device/ - Host device enumeration
* secret/ - Secret management
* security/ - Mandatory access control drivers
* storage/ - Storage management drivers
Since both the hypervisor and secondary drivers can be built as
dlopen()able modules, it is *FORBIDDEN* to have build dependencies
between these directories. Drivers are only allowed to depend on
the public API, and the internal APIs in the util/ and conf/
directories