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Message-Id: <1189665173.32322.17.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:32:53 +1000
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	rostedt@...dmiss.org, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	lguest@...abs.org, glommer@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add macros for acessing lguest fields

On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 15:20 -0300, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
> The assumption that we have an overall irqs_pending flags,
> and a one-to-one lguest <-> task mapping fails to hold on x86_64,
> where we can have multiple puppies, aka vcpus.
> 
> Although ifdefs could be used, it makes the code much more
> unreadable, and other ports are on the way, anyway. So some sort
> of acessor is preferred anyway.

I'd prefer to see the i386 code use vcpus too.  Even if i386 only has
one at present, it's cleaner.

Of course, there'll be a lot of "s/lg/vcpu/" churn, but that's OK.

Thanks,
Rusty.


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