On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Which pv_lock? The current pv spinlock mess is basically the old unfair > thing. The later patch series I referred to earlier implemented a > paravirt ticket lock, that should perform much better under overcommit. > Yes, it is a paravirt *ticket* spinck. I got the patch from Raghavendra K T through email http://lwn.net/Articles/495597/ -- 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