Re: [PATCH 00/14] PV ticket locks without expanding spinlock

[Srivatsa Vaddagiri]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 01:08:31PM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> This is a revised version of the pvticket lock series.

The 3-patch series to follow this email extends KVM-hypervisor and Linux guest 
running on KVM-hypervisor to support pv-ticket spinlocks.

Two hypercalls are being introduced in KVM hypervisor, one that allows a
vcpu (spinning on a lock) to block and another that allows a vcpu to kick
another out of blocking state.

Patches are against 2.6.37 mainline kernel. I also don't yet have numbers 
at this time to show benefit of pv-ticketlocks - I would think the benefit
should be similar across hypervisors (Xen and KVM in this case).

- vatsa
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