Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH][RFC] kvm-scheduler integration

[Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>]

On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 15:48 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> wrote:
> 
> > >>+#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_KVM
> > >>+static __read_mostly struct sched_kvm_hooks kvm_hooks;
> > >>+#endif
> > >
> > >please just add a current->put_vcpu() function pointer instead of 
> > >this hooks thing.
> > 
> > Won't that increase task_struct (16 bytes on 64-bit) unnecessarily?  
> > The function pointers are common to all virtual machines.
> 
> well, this function pointer could then be reused by other virtual 
> machines as well, couldnt it? If the task struct overhead is a problem 
> (it really isnt, and it's dependent on CONFIG_KVM) then we could switch 
> it around to a notifier-alike mechanism.

OK, this patch is *ugly*.  Not that there's anything wrong with a patch
which says "I'm going to preempt you", but making it kvm-specific is
ugly.  ISTR times past where I wanted such a hook, although none spring
immediately into my pre-coffee brain.

I think a "struct preempt_ops *" and a "void *preempt_ops_data" inside
every task struct is a better idea.  Call the config option
PREEMPT_SCHED_HOOKS and now there's nothing kvm-specific about it...

Cheers,
Rusty.