linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] locking/pvqspinlock: Unconditional PV kick with _Q_SLOW

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Date:	Mon, 27 Jul 2015 11:41:28 -0700
From:	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
To:	Waiman Long <waiman.long@...com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Scott J Norton <scott.norton@...com>,
	Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] locking/pvqspinlock: Unconditional PV kick with
 _Q_SLOW_VAL

On Mon, 2015-07-27 at 13:50 -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> As for the spurious-wakeups.txt, I saw there are spurious wakeup 
> occasionally. However, I am not totally sure of the mechanism that 
> causes it. Also the spurious wakeup here refers to the vmenter of the 
> vCPU which is different from spurious wakeup of a sleeping thread. I 
> don't think I have enough data and information to write a document file yet.

Right, this was a generic idea, not only regarding actual wakeups of
sleeping threads.

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