Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] kvm: keep track of which task is running a KVMvcpu

[Rik van Riel]

On 12/02/2010 08:18 PM, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Rik van Riel (riel@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > Keep track of which task is running a KVM vcpu.  This helps us
> > figure out later what task to wake up if we want to boost a
> > vcpu that got preempted.
> >
> > Unfortunately there are no guarantees that the same task
> > always keeps the same vcpu, so we can only track the task
> > across a single "run" of the vcpu.
>
> So shouldn't it confine to KVM_RUN?  The other vcpu_load callers aren't
> always a vcpu in a useful runnable state.

Yeah, probably.  If you want I can move the setting of
vcpu->task to kvm_vcpu_ioctl.

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