On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Glauber Costa wrote: >>> >>> This can't be the best way of determining the env pointer from a cpu >>> number. >>> >> >> By far it is not. But at least it does not depend on any kvm-specific >> data, and works >> for both qemu and kvm. So it's better to be this way. >> >> If we change this scheme to a better one, like a hash table, then >> it'll improve both qemu and kvm. >> >> > > There are simpler data structures. An example is an array. Since we have > an upper limit on the number of cpus (->max_cpus) there are no issues with > scaling (unlike with the algorithm above).
Yes, but I believe the whole point of jes patches is to remove those limits. -- Glauber Costa. "Free as in Freedom" http://glommer.net "The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
