linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4, v2] x86: enlightenment for ticket spin locks

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Date:	Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:32:51 +0300
From:	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>, mingo@...e.hu,
	tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com, jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com,
	Ky Srinivasan <KSrinivasan@...ell.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4, v2] x86: enlightenment for ticket spin locks -
 base implementation

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:26:36AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 10:05 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > +config ENLIGHTEN_SPINLOCKS
> > 
> > Why exactly are these enlightened? 
> 
> Or did I just miss a terribly pun:
>   enlightenment -> Buddha -> Zen -> Xen ?
Enlightenment is also a term that MS uses to describe their PV guests
which makes this name very confusing in Xen context. When I saw this
patch series I thought it has something to do with Hyper-V.

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			Gleb.
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