linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: X86: Make fpu allocation a common function

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Date:   Wed, 16 Oct 2019 09:52:38 +0800
From:   Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@...el.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: X86: Make fpu allocation a common function

On 10/15/2019 5:28 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 14/10/19 18:58, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
>> Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@...el.com> writes:
>>
>>> They are duplicated codes to create vcpu.arch.{user,guest}_fpu in VMX
>>> and SVM. Make them common functions.
>>>
>>> No functional change intended.
>> Would it rather make sense to move this code to
>> kvm_arch_vcpu_create()/kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy() instead?
>>
> 
> user_fpu could be made percpu too...  That would save a bit of memory
> for each vCPU.  I'm holding on Xiaoyao's patch because a lot of the code
> he's touching would go away then.

Sorry, I don't get clear your attitude.
Do you mean the generic common function is not so better that I'd better 
to implement the percpu solution?

> Paolo
>