Re: [PATCHv3 1/1] locking/qspinlock/x86: Avoid test-and-set when PV_DEDICATED is set

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Nov 09 2017 - 11:17:18 EST


On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 05:05:36PM +0100, Radim Krcmar wrote:
> 2017-11-09 10:53-0500, Pankaj Gupta:
> > 2] PV TLB should also behave as per option PV_DEDICATED for better performance.
>
> Right,

Shouldn't KVM do flush_tlb_other() in any case? Not sure how
PV_DEDICATED can help with that.