On 19/02/20 01:47, Wanpeng Li wrote: >> An alternative idea: instead of making every caller return bool and >> every call site handle the result (once) just add a >> KVM_REQ_APIC_MAP_RECALC flag or a boolean flag to struct kvm. I >> understand it may not be that easy as it sounds as we may be conunting >> on valid mapping somewhere before we actually get to handiling > Yes. > >> KVM_REQ_APIC_MAP_RECALC but we may preserve *some* >> recalculate_apic_map() calls (and make it reset KVM_REQ_APIC_MAP_RECALC). > Paolo, keep the caller return bool or add a booleen flag to struct > kvm, what do you think? A third possibility: add an apic_map field to struct kvm_lapic, so that you don't have to add bool return values everywhere. Paolo