Re: [RFC PATCH 13/16] kvm tools: keep track of registered memory banks in struct kvm

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On 11/20/2012 12:15 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi Sasha,
> 
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 04:37:38AM +0000, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> On 11/12/2012 06:57 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
>>>  struct kvm {
>>>  	struct kvm_arch		arch;
>>>  	struct kvm_config	cfg;
>>> @@ -49,6 +56,7 @@ struct kvm {
>>>  	u64			ram_size;
>>>  	void			*ram_start;
>>>  	u64			ram_pagesize;
>>> +	struct list_head	mem_banks;
>>
>> These memory banks actually look like a perfect example to use our augmented interval rb-tree,
>> can we switch them to use it, or is it a list on purpose?
> 
> I found some time to look at this today but unfortunately they're not as
> ideally suited to the interval tree as they look: the problem being that we
> need to search for banks by both host virtual address *and* guest physical
> address depending on the translation that we're doing.
> 
> We could have two separate tress, but that seems like overkill given the
> likely number of banks.

Makes sense. We can convert it later if we need to as well.


Thanks,
Sasha

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