From: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>,
Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
"kvm-ia64@vger.kernel.org" <kvm-ia64@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] remove vcpu_info array v5
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:30:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49182977.5080105@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49105C95.90809@redhat.com>
Avi Kivity wrote:
> Glauber Costa wrote:
>> 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).
Well one of the goals with my patch was to get rid of that nasty limit,
so that we can scale. Static sized arrays are bad.
Jes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-10 12:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-30 14:09 [patch] remove vcpu_info array v5 Jes Sorensen
2008-11-04 11:54 ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-04 13:55 ` Glauber Costa
2008-11-04 14:30 ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-04 14:35 ` Glauber Costa
2008-11-04 14:40 ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-04 14:43 ` Glauber Costa
2008-11-04 14:47 ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-10 13:30 ` Jes Sorensen
2008-11-10 13:40 ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-10 15:22 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-11-10 15:45 ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-10 15:47 ` Jes Sorensen
2008-11-10 15:54 ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-10 15:58 ` Jes Sorensen
2008-11-11 9:26 ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-12 13:02 ` Jes Sorensen
2008-11-12 13:09 ` Glauber Costa
2008-11-12 13:14 ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-12 13:12 ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-10 12:30 ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2008-11-10 13:24 ` Jes Sorensen
2008-11-10 13:48 ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-13 16:46 ` [patch] pass opague CPUState through libkvm instead of int vcpu Jes Sorensen
2008-11-18 12:55 ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-18 12:59 ` Jes Sorensen
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