On 28 Nov 2005, at 16:47, Rik van Riel wrote:
The reason for putting the vcpu_* structures together on a per virtual cpu basis is that this way we can extend the number of virtual CPUs in the future, without breaking the interface with older guests. The current stared_info struct of two [MAX_VIRT_CPUS] arrays followed by the single variables is just impossible to extend in the future.
MAX_VIRT_CPUS is already quite big (32). Increasing it to the next power-of-two will overflow the shared_info page. So, if/when we want to do that we'll place the extra vcpu info in a separate shared page.
Given how close 3.0.0 is now, I don't think this is a good change to be making.
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