On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 06:21:12PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > I didn't really read the patch, and I totally forgot everything from > when I looked at the Xen series, but does the Xen/KVM hypercall > interface for this include the vcpu to await the kick from? No not yet, for reasons you mention below. > My guess is not, since the ticket locks used don't know who the owner > is, which is of course, sad. There are FIFO spinlock implementations > that can do this though.. although I think they all have a bigger memory > footprint. > > The reason for wanting this should be clear I guess, it allows PI. Yeah - that would be good to experiment with. - 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
