From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Xen devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Christoph Lameter <clameter@linux-foundation.org>,
Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Friebel <thomas.friebel@amd.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] Paravirtual spinlocks
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 10:29:18 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807081029.19242.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080707190749.299430659@goop.org>
On Tuesday 08 July 2008 05:07:49 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> At the most recent Xen Summit, Thomas Friebel presented a paper
> ("Preventing Guests from Spinning Around",
> http://xen.org/files/xensummitboston08/LHP.pdf) investigating the
> interactions between spinlocks and virtual machines. Specifically, he
> looked at what happens when a lock-holding VCPU gets involuntarily
> preempted.
I find it interesting that gang scheduling the guest was not suggested as an
obvious solution.
Anyway, concept looks fine; lguest's solution is more elegant of course :)
A little disappointing that you can't patch your version inline.
Cheers,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-08 0:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-07 19:07 [PATCH RFC 0/4] Paravirtual spinlocks Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-07 19:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-07 19:07 ` [PATCH RFC 1/4] x86/paravirt: add hooks for spinlock operations Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-07 19:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-07 19:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-07 19:07 ` [PATCH RFC 2/4] paravirt: introduce a "lock-byte" spinlock implementation Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-07 19:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-07 19:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-07 19:07 ` [PATCH RFC 3/4] xen: use lock-byte " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-07 19:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-07 19:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-07 19:07 ` [PATCH RFC 4/4] xen: implement Xen-specific spinlocks Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-07 19:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-08 6:37 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-07-08 6:37 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-07-08 7:15 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-08 7:15 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-08 7:30 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-07-08 7:30 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-07-08 7:15 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-08 0:29 ` [PATCH RFC 0/4] Paravirtual spinlocks Rusty Russell
2008-07-08 0:29 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2008-07-08 0:37 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-08 0:37 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-08 0:37 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-08 1:01 ` Rusty Russell
2008-07-08 1:01 ` Rusty Russell
2008-07-08 4:51 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-08 4:51 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-08 5:28 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-08 5:28 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-08 5:28 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-08 4:51 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-09 12:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-09 12:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-09 12:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-09 12:35 ` [patch] x86: paravirt spinlocks, !CONFIG_SMP build fixes (was: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] Paravirtual spinlocks) Ingo Molnar
2008-07-09 12:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-09 12:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-09 12:39 ` [patch] x86: paravirt spinlocks, modular build fix " Ingo Molnar
2008-07-09 12:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-09 12:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-09 13:33 ` [PATCH RFC 0/4] Paravirtual spinlocks Ingo Molnar
2008-07-09 13:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-09 13:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-09 13:49 ` [patch] x86, paravirt-spinlocks: fix boot hang (was: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] Paravirtual spinlocks) Ingo Molnar
2008-07-09 13:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-09 15:55 ` [patch] x86, paravirt-spinlocks: fix boot hang Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-09 19:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-09 19:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-09 19:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-09 15:55 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-09 13:49 ` [patch] x86, paravirt-spinlocks: fix boot hang (was: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] Paravirtual spinlocks) Ingo Molnar
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2008-07-07 19:07 [PATCH RFC 0/4] Paravirtual spinlocks Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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