From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>,
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 1/4, v2] x86: enlightenment for ticket spin locks - base implementation
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:32:51 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100630093251.GW4689@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1277889996.1868.106.camel@laptop>
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:26:36AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 10:05 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > +config ENLIGHTEN_SPINLOCKS
> >
> > Why exactly are these enlightened?
>
> Or did I just miss a terribly pun:
> enlightenment -> Buddha -> Zen -> Xen ?
Enlightenment is also a term that MS uses to describe their PV guests
which makes this name very confusing in Xen context. When I saw this
patch series I thought it has something to do with Hyper-V.
--
Gleb.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-30 9:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-29 14:31 [PATCH 1/4, v2] x86: enlightenment for ticket spin locks - base implementation Jan Beulich
2010-06-30 8:05 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-30 9:00 ` Jan Beulich
2010-06-30 9:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-30 9:56 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-06-30 11:43 ` Jan Beulich
2010-06-30 11:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-30 11:54 ` Jan Beulich
2010-06-30 10:50 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-06-30 11:52 ` Jan Beulich
2010-06-30 12:53 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-06-30 13:21 ` Jan Beulich
2010-06-30 13:28 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-06-30 9:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-06-30 9:32 ` Gleb Natapov [this message]
2010-06-30 8:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
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