-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/25/2014 01:30 AM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > On Mon, 2014-11-24 at 21:03 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: >> I can see this "solution" help mostly with userspace spinlocks, >> which are relics of a past era that need to die. There is no way >> userspace spinlocks will not fail miserably on virtual machines, >> and it is time to get rid of them. > > No, not really. Spinlocks are still very useful on bare metal. > Virtualization is not the only thing out there. How many people are going to build two different binaries, one for bare metal, and one for virtualized environments? I suspect the vast majority of applications will only be built once, and it would be nice if it wasn't using a locking scheme that broke horribly on a significant part of the deployments... - -- All rights reversed -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUdIY6AAoJEM553pKExN6DaisH+wWzTc+onHTsPUXs6EU/s+sa lp3KFWmRQACPjiWSyIfg7aWFxakiS8BQ4ypbXdC/55lHuX/KMm/1k3zZF/lHiyYA vIwfPUX7TnZxgYGVGk++nrCTffQImAc5RXlCBU6Hp6dHxV5Pead6S9afO8dfOeVu 80cpsqCyUqX+jhMDKq6NkIE0mCMb/U4L0cqo7m67h7PTlWmj8V64PKJjvkDu48O1 tPd+6jj4xDoEl8dde00EMaYETA6Utngt8+LslV1hMB1nxn82aNIGJnEqQco4WGXH gE8Pkn+iToBe1hPF63MVZFJHRzXPUOAoaBCTgu7+l9LLDkfBgv2A/ckh5NLUrd8= =41Jl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
