From: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
To: Xinxin Jin <xinxinjin89@gmail.com>
Cc: "Xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <Xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: Can Xen sleep or wake up a thread?
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 18:38:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1381250329.15946.30.camel@Solace> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJJWZczV3AqfSxN6J6Q4711xERq4wPq=SUfePS_cspSxp-QzXA@mail.gmail.com>
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On mar, 2013-10-08 at 08:11 -0700, Xinxin Jin wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
>
> I found in Xen, when synchronization between multiple threads is
> needed, Xen always uses busy wait or simple spin lock.
>
Mmm... What exactly is a 'thread' here? Are you talking about Xen
internals? If yes, I don't think there's much multithreading involved
there...
> In linux, the kernel can block a waiting thread and schedule other
> threads for execution. Why does Xen do not have this mechanism?
>
Well, Linux, as a general purpose kernel, does indeed schedule a lot of
different stuff, yes, but I still don't see where you think Xen
could/should do something similar...
> I guess it is because the performance issue? A lot of appreciation for
> your answer !!
>
Perhaps you can:
- show some example of what you mean
- describe what is the issue that you are seeing/trying to solve
Regards,
Dario
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-08 15:11 Can Xen sleep or wake up a thread? Xinxin Jin
2013-10-08 16:38 ` Dario Faggioli [this message]
2013-10-09 11:15 ` George Dunlap
2013-10-09 11:24 ` Ian Campbell
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