On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 06:40:07PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 06:23:11PM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote: > > > So, to summarize: this patch does not help speed irq injection up, the > > > only reason to change locking here is cosmetical. Is this a fair > > > summary? > > > > > The whole series helps to speed irq injection up. This patch is one step > > towards the goal. > > Let me rephrase: it's possible to drop patches 2 and 3 from the series > and irq injection will still be lockless. Correct? > You can use here any one of million locks that is available in linux that is not taken at the moment this functions are called. So yes you can drop them. -- Gleb. -- 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
