From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ME4SC-0002CP-Nb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:45:40 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ME4S7-00026t-M4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:45:39 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49912 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ME4S7-00026a-Eq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:45:35 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:35673) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ME4S7-0008Lx-0x for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:45:35 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 19:45:31 +0300 From: Gleb Natapov Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] provide cpu_index to env mapping Message-ID: <20090609164531.GN5558@redhat.com> References: <1244564118-428-1-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> <4A2E8CDE.7050507@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A2E8CDE.7050507@redhat.com> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Avi Kivity Cc: Glauber Costa , aliguori@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 07:25:02PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > Glauber Costa wrote: >> There are some people interested in, given a cpu number, >> pick its CPUState. KVM is an example, although not yet in tree. >> This patch provides a way of doing that. >> >> > > I think it's better to migrate kvm towards using env as the handle > instead of the cpu index. > > kvm will soon address lose its cpu numbering in favor of apic ids; and > apic ids will not start from zero on large guests. > The work is almost done. -- Gleb.