RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] rename VMX option lapic to apic, and pass it to xen by hvm_info_table

["Li, Xin B" <xin.b.li@xxxxxxxxx>]

>> I like the name 'lapic' rather than 'apic' as it explicitly 
>> disambiguates from 'ioapic'. And it's only one more character.
>>
>> Placing the hvm info definitions in public/io/ioreq.h is not 
>right. It 
>> probably needs its own header file. How about a new subdirectory 
>> include/public/hvm, containing hvm_info.h, ioreq.h and vmx_assist.h?
>
>Also, does anything in Xen actually use the nr_vcpus variable? There's 
>an accessor function for obtaining its value, but noone calls it, nor 
>can I see any reason someone would want to in the future. There's 
>already a setmaxvcpus dom0_op. Seems the Xen code that reads that part 
>of the hvm_info struct could be removed.
>

SMP VMX guest will use it.
Maybe in the future when we have CPU hotplug support in VMX guest, we
don't need it any longer, but that's need more thoughts :-).
-Xin

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