Re: [PATCH] cpupools: Make interface more consistent

[Juergen Gross <juergen.gross@ts.fujitsu.com>]

On 10/20/10 17:49, George Dunlap wrote:
> The current cpupools code interface is a bit inconsistent.  This
> patch addresses this by making the interaction for each
> vcpu in a pool look like this:
>
> alloc_vdata() -- allocates and sets up vcpu data
> insert_vcpu() -- the vcpu is ready to run in this pool
> remove_vcpu() -- take the vcpu out of the pool
> free_vdata()  -- delete allocated vcpu data
>
> (Previously, remove_vcpu and free_vdata were combined into a "destroy
> vcpu", and insert_vcpu was only called for idle vcpus.)
>
> This also addresses a bug in credit2 which was caused by a misunderstanding
> of the cpupools interface.
>
> Signed-off-by: George Dunlap<george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>

Acked-by: juergen.gross@ts.fujitsu.com

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