linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] Paravirtual spinlocks

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Message-ID: <20080709122852.GA30579@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 9 Jul 2008 14:28:52 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@...e.cz>,
	Virtualization <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Xen devel <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	Thomas Friebel <thomas.friebel@....com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] Paravirtual spinlocks


* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> 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
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