Re: [PATCH 08/31] nVMX: Fix local_vcpus_link handling

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On Tue, May 17, 2011, Marcelo Tosatti wrote about "Re: [PATCH 08/31] nVMX: Fix local_vcpus_link handling":
> > this is what I planned to do, until it dawned on me that I can't, because "cpu"
> > isn't part of vmx (where the vmcs and launched sit in the standard KVM), but
>...
> vcpu->cpu remains there. There is a new ->cpu field on struct vmcs, just
> as saved_vmcs has in the current patches, to note the cpu which the VMCS 
> was last loaded.

So we'll have two fields, vmx.vcpu.cpu and vmx.vmcs.cpu, which are supposed
to always contain the same value. Are you fine with that?

> As mentioned there is no need to set "vcpu->cpu = -1" in __vcpu_clear,
> the IPI handler, that can be done in vcpu_clear.

Right, this is true.

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