Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 25/30] exec: put memory map in AddressSpaceDispatch

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2013-06-28 20:26, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> This lets us get a consistent (phys_map, nodes, sections) using
> RCU.  After this patch, cur_map is not used anymore except for freeing
> it at the end of the topology update.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> ---
>  exec.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/exec.c b/exec.c
> index 0d852ee..581f0c4 100644
> --- a/exec.c
> +++ b/exec.c
> @@ -94,11 +94,15 @@ struct PhysPageEntry {
>      uint16_t ptr : 15;
>  };
>  
> +typedef PhysPageEntry Node[L2_SIZE];
> +
>  struct AddressSpaceDispatch {
>      /* This is a multi-level map on the physical address space.
>       * The bottom level has pointers to MemoryRegionSections.
>       */
>      PhysPageEntry phys_map;
> +    Node *nodes;
> +    MemoryRegionSection *sections;

Why not sticking the whole current PhysPageMap into here? Wouldn't that
also allow to overcome prev_map completely (next patch)?

Jan

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