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SubjectRe: [PATCH][RFC] kvm-scheduler integration

* Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> wrote:

> >> Won't that increase task_struct (16 bytes on 64-bit) unnecessarily?
> >> The function pointers are common to all virtual machines.
> >
> > well, this function pointer could then be reused by other virtual
> > machines as well, couldnt it?
>
> I don't get this. If we add a couple of members to task_struct, it
> can't be reused. The values will be the same across all tasks, but
> the memory will be gone (including tasks which aren't virtual
> machines).

i mean, the function pointer is set by KVM, but it could be set to a
different value by other hypervisors.

but ... no strong feelings either way, your patch is certainly fine.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Ingo
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