Re: [patch] remove vcpu_info array v5

"Glauber Costa" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.kvm-ia64,org.kernel.vger.kvm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Avi Kivity <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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).

Yes, but I believe the whole point of jes patches is to remove those limits.




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