Re: [PATCH] kvm: make vcpu life cycle separated from kvm instance

From: Gleb Natapov
Date: Mon Dec 05 2011 - 04:42:44 EST


On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 11:30:51AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 12/05/2011 07:29 AM, Liu ping fan wrote:
> > like this,
> > #define kvm_for_each_vcpu(idx, cnt, vcpup, kvm) \
> > for (idx = 0, cnt = 0, vcpup = kvm_get_vcpu(kvm, idx); \
> > cnt < atomic_read(&kvm->online_vcpus) && \
> > idx < KVM_MAX_VCPUS; \
> > idx++, (vcpup == NULL)?:cnt++, vcpup = kvm_get_vcpu(kvm, idx)) \
> > if (vcpup == NULL) \
> > continue; \
> > else
> >
> >
> > A little ugly, but have not thought a better way out :-)
> >
>
> #define kvm_for_each_vcpu(vcpu, it) for (vcpu = kvm_fev_init(&it); vcpu;
> vcpu = kvm_fev_next(&it, vcpu))
>
> Though that doesn't give a good place for rcu_read_unlock().
>
>
Why not use rculist to store vcpus and use list_for_each_entry_rcu()?

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Gleb.
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