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-rw-r--r--nova/virt/xenapi_conn.py6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/nova/virt/xenapi_conn.py b/nova/virt/xenapi_conn.py
index 6b67b8b88..6fda205d0 100644
--- a/nova/virt/xenapi_conn.py
+++ b/nova/virt/xenapi_conn.py
@@ -544,10 +544,14 @@ class XenAPISession(object):
def async_call_plugin(self, plugin, fn, args):
"""Call Async.host.call_plugin on a background thread."""
+ # NOTE(johannes): Fetch host before we acquire a session. Since
+ # _get_session() acquires a session too, it can result in a deadlock
+ # if multiple greenthreads race with each other. See bug 924918
+ host = self.get_xenapi_host()
with self._get_session() as session:
return tpool.execute(self._unwrap_plugin_exceptions,
session.xenapi.Async.host.call_plugin,
- self.get_xenapi_host(), plugin, fn, args)
+ host, plugin, fn, args)
def wait_for_task(self, task, uuid=None):
"""Return the result of the given task. The task is polled