* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > My experiments show that using a Xen-specific lock helps guest > performance a bit (reduction in elapsed and system time in a kernbench > run), but most significantly, reduces overall physical CPU consumption > by 10%, and so increases overall system scalability. that's rather impressive and looks nice, considering the fairly low impact. as there were no fundamental objections in this thread i've created a tip/x86/paravirt-spinlocks topic branch for these patches and started testing them. i based the topic branch on tip/xen-64bit, so you should be able to get the latest code by doing: git-merge tip/x86/paravirt-spinlocks on tip/master. Ingo _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
