Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] kvm: Handle undercommitted guest case in PLEhandler

[Avi Kivity]

On 10/03/2012 04:17 PM, Raghavendra K T wrote:
> * Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> [2012-09-30 13:13:09]:
> 
>> On 09/30/2012 01:07 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>> > On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 10:18:17AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> >> On 09/28/2012 08:16 AM, Raghavendra K T wrote:
>> >> > 
>> >> >>
>> >> >>     +struct pv_sched_info {
>> >> >>     +       unsigned long   sched_bitmap;
>> >> > 
>> >> > Thinking, whether we need something similar to cpumask here?
>> >> > Only thing is we are representing guest (v)cpumask.
>> >> > 
>> >> 
>> >> DECLARE_BITMAP(sched_bitmap, KVM_MAX_VCPUS)
>> >> 
>> > vcpu_id can be greater than KVM_MAX_VCPUS.
>> 
>> Use the index into the vcpu table as the bitmap index then.  In fact
>> it's better because then the lookup to get the vcpu pointer is trivial.
> 
> Did you mean, while setting the bitmap,
> 
> we should do 
> for (i = 1..n)
> if (kvm->vcpus[i] == vcpu) set ith position in bitmap?

You can store i in the vcpu itself:

  set_bit(vcpu->index, &kvm->preempted);

> 
> I just wanted to know whether there is any easy way to convert from 
> vcpu  pointer to index in kvm vcpu table.
> 



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