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

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* Avi Kivity <[email protected]> wrote:

> >>+#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_KVM
> >>+static __read_mostly struct sched_kvm_hooks kvm_hooks;
> >>+#endif
> >
> >please just add a current->put_vcpu() function pointer instead of 
> >this hooks thing.
> 
> 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? If the task struct overhead is a problem 
(it really isnt, and it's dependent on CONFIG_KVM) then we could switch 
it around to a notifier-alike mechanism.

	Ingo
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