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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com,
	jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com,
	Ky Srinivasan <KSrinivasan@novell.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4, v2] x86: enlightenment for ticket spin locks - improve yield behavior on Xen
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:11:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1277885485.1868.74.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C2A20E30200007800008A17@vpn.id2.novell.com>

On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 15:35 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> 
> The (only) additional overhead this introduces for native execution is
> the writing of the owning CPU in the lock acquire paths. 

Uhm, and growing the size of spinlock_t to 6 (or 8 bytes when aligned)
bytes when NR_CPUS>256.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-30  8:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-29 14:35 [PATCH 4/4, v2] x86: enlightenment for ticket spin locks - improve yield behavior on Xen Jan Beulich
2010-06-30  8:11 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2010-06-30  8:49   ` Jan Beulich
2010-06-30  9:24     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-30 10:10     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-06-30 11:25       ` Jan Beulich
2010-06-30 10:08 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-06-30 11:22   ` Jan Beulich

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