RE: [Xen-devel] credit scheduler issues in 64bit hypervisor

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

>> Hmm, I still prefer allocating VMCS just before launching, can you
>> explain your concerns?
>
>If the VMCS allocation fails you have no path for indicating 
>failure to 
>the caller -- context switch is always expected to succeed. Critical 
>dynamic allocations should really happen on domain/vcpu creation. Also 
>the short VMCS lifetime (first launch to dom0_destroy) means that 
>getvcpucontext at other times -- on a very new HVM guest or one very 
>close to death -- probably crashes or hangs right now.
>

OK, that's reasonable :-), I'll send out the patch.
Thanks
-Xin

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