Re: [PATCH 2/3] kvm hypervisor : Add hypercalls to support pv-ticketlock

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 17:29 +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> 
> If we had a yield-to [1] sort of interface _and_ information on which vcpu
> owns a lock, then lock-spinners can yield-to the owning vcpu, 

and then I'd nak it for being stupid ;-)

really, yield*() is retarded, never even consider using it. If you've
got the actual owner you can do full blown PI, which is tons better than
a 'do-something-random' call.

The only reason the whole non-virt pause loop filtering muck uses it is
because it really doesn't know anything, and do-something is pretty much
all it can do. Its a broken interface.
_______________________________________________
Virtualization mailing list
Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization


[Index of Archives]     [KVM Development]     [Libvirt Development]     [Libvirt Users]     [CentOS Virtualization]     [Netdev]     [Ethernet Bridging]     [Linux Wireless]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Security]     [Linux for Hams]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite Forum]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux Admin]     [Samba]

  Powered by Linux