linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] xen: optimize xenbus performance

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Message-ID: <6388f65c-b0bd-6575-a93e-cd74f404ace8@oracle.com>
Date:   Fri, 10 Feb 2017 09:06:45 -0500
From:   Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
To:     Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] xen: optimize xenbus performance

On 02/09/2017 08:39 AM, Juergen Gross wrote:
> The xenbus driver used for communication with Xenstore (all kernel
> accesses to Xenstore and in case of Xenstore living in another domain
> all accesses of the local domain to Xenstore) is rather simple
> especially regarding multiple concurrent accesses: they are just being
> serialized in spite of Xenstore being capable to handle multiple
> parallel accesses.
>
> Clean up the external interface(s) of xenbus and optimize its
> performance by allowing multiple concurrent accesses to Xenstore.
>

Applied to for-linus-4.11.

-boris