On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 02:47:04PM +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote: > In virtualized environment there are mainly three problems > related to spinlocks that affects performance. > 1. LHP (lock holder preemption) > 2. Lock Waiter Preemption (LWP) > 3. Starvation/fairness > > Though Ticketlocks solve fairness problem it worsens LWP, LHP problems. Though > pv-ticketlocks tried to address these problems we can further improve at the > cost of relaxed fairness. The following patch tries to achieve that by grouping > (batched) ticketlocks. And here I stop reading and ignore this patch, right? Why should I look at this? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html