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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Difference between vcpu_load and kvm_sched_in ?
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 11:37:41 +0200
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On 21/10/2015 19:21, Yacine HEBBAL wrote:
> If I correctly understood you last paragraph, it is better to use vm_ioctl
> to do generic processing that doesn't rely on a given VCPU and hence I won't
> need to use "CPU_FOREACH, run_on_cpu and current_cpu".

Right.  On the other hand, you definitely want a vcpu_ioctl if you need
to call vcpu_load.

Thanks,

Paolo