Re: Does CONFIG_PARAVIRT imply usage of byte locks?

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Mon Jan 12 2009 - 02:14:51 EST


Jiri Kosina wrote:
Avi, are there any plans to make KVM use byte locks implementation for spinlocks in the near future?

No, although I note anything coming out of the spinning mutex discussion could be applied towards a sleeping spinlock for paravirt.

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