From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: X86: Make fpu allocation a common function
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 16:36:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lftm3wja.fsf@vitty.brq.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <97255084-7b10-73a5-bfb4-fdc1d5cc0f6e@redhat.com>
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:
> On 15/10/19 12:53, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
>> A very theoretical question: why do we have 'struct vcpu' embedded in
>> vcpu_vmx/vcpu_svm and not the other way around (e.g. in a union)? That
>> would've allowed us to allocate memory in common code and then fill in
>> vendor-specific details in .create_vcpu().
>
> Probably "because it's always been like that" is the most accurate answer.
>
OK, so let me make my question a bit less theoretical: would you be in
favor of changing the status quo? :-)
--
Vitaly
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-15 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-14 16:22 [PATCH] KVM: X86: Make fpu allocation a common function Xiaoyao Li
2019-10-14 16:58 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2019-10-14 18:37 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-10-15 0:48 ` Xiaoyao Li
2019-10-15 10:53 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2019-10-15 14:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-10-15 14:36 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov [this message]
2019-10-15 16:14 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-10-15 16:36 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-10-15 9:28 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-10-16 1:52 ` Xiaoyao Li
2019-10-16 7:35 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-10-16 7:48 ` Xiaoyao Li
2019-10-16 9:41 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-10-17 16:05 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-10-21 13:09 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-10-22 0:57 ` Xiaoyao Li
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