On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 12:09:01PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > I don't see how that is going to help get the lock > released, when the VCPU holding the lock is on another > CPU. Even the directed yield() is not guaranteed to get the lock released, given its shooting in the dark? Anyway, the intention of yield() proposed was not to get lock released immediately (which will happen eventually), but rather to avoid inefficiency associated with (long) spinning and at the same time make sure we are not leaking our bandwidth to other guests because of a naive yield .. - vatsa -- 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
