Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 3/3] qom: implement CPU list with an RCU QLIST

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 13/08/2018 18:38, Emilio G. Cota wrote:
> 
> Fix it by implementing the CPU list as an RCU QLIST. This requires
> a little bit of extra work to insert CPUs at the tail of
> the list and to iterate over the list in reverse order (see previous patch).
> 
> One might be tempted to just insert new CPUs at the head of the list.
> However, I think this might lead to hard-to-debug issues, since it is
> possible that callers are assuming that CPUs are inserted at the tail
> (just like spapr code did in the previous patch). So instead of auditing
> all callers, this patch simply keeps the old behaviour.

Why not add an RCU_QSIMPLEQ, or even use an array since the quadratic
behavior should not be an issue?  The advantage of the array is that
reverse iteration becomes trivial.

Thanks,

Paolo