Re: [patch] remove vcpu_info array v5

Avi Kivity <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.kvm-ia64,org.kernel.vger.kvm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Glauber Costa wrote:
>> This can't be the best way of determining the env pointer from a cpu number.
>>     
> By far it is not. But at least it does not depend on any kvm-specific
> data, and works
> for both qemu and kvm. So it's better to be this way.
>
> If we change this scheme to a better one, like a hash table, then
> it'll improve both qemu and kvm.
>
>   

There are simpler data structures.  An example is an array.  Since we 
have an upper limit on the number of cpus (->max_cpus) there are no 
issues with scaling (unlike with the algorithm above).

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