On 06/01/2013 01:14 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > FWIW I use the paravirt spinlock ops for adding lock elision > to the spinlocks. Does lock elision still use the ticketlock algorithm/structure, or are they different? If they're still basically ticketlocks, then it seems to me that they're complimentary - hle handles the fastpath, and pv the slowpath. > This needs to be done at the top level (so the level you're removing) > > However I don't like the pv mechanism very much and would > be fine with using an static key hook in the main path > like I do for all the other lock types. Right. J -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html