From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH V12 0/14] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 14:01:06 -0700 Message-ID: <52016412.1020608@zytor.com> References: <20130806114020.20643.57235.sendpatchset@codeblue.in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20130806114020.20643.57235.sendpatchset@codeblue.in.ibm.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Raghavendra K T Cc: jeremy@goop.org, gregkh@suse.de, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, drjones@redhat.com, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, andi@firstfloor.org, stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, x86@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, habanero@linux.vnet.ibm.com, riel@redhat.com, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, ouyang@cs.pitt.edu, avi.kivity@gmail.com, tglx@linutronix.de, chegu_vinod@hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, srivatsa.vaddagiri@gmail.com, attilio.rao@citrix.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org On 08/06/2013 04:40 AM, Raghavendra K T wrote: > This series replaces the existing paravirtualized spinlock mechanism > with a paravirtualized ticketlock mechanism. The series provides > implementation for both Xen and KVM. > > The current set of patches are for Xen/x86 spinlock/KVM guest side, to be included > against -tip. > What is the baseline for this patchset? I tried to apply it on top of 3.11-rc4 and I got nontrivial conflicts. -hpa From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755633Ab3HFVHD (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Aug 2013 17:07:03 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:43153 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751305Ab3HFVHB (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Aug 2013 17:07:01 -0400 Message-ID: <52016412.1020608@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 14:01:06 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Raghavendra K T CC: gleb@redhat.com, mingo@redhat.com, jeremy@goop.org, x86@kernel.org, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, habanero@linux.vnet.ibm.com, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, peterz@infradead.org, mtosatti@redhat.com, stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com, andi@firstfloor.org, attilio.rao@citrix.com, ouyang@cs.pitt.edu, gregkh@suse.de, agraf@suse.de, chegu_vinod@hp.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, avi.kivity@gmail.com, tglx@linutronix.de, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, riel@redhat.com, drjones@redhat.com, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, srivatsa.vaddagiri@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH V12 0/14] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks References: <20130806114020.20643.57235.sendpatchset@codeblue.in.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20130806114020.20643.57235.sendpatchset@codeblue.in.ibm.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08/06/2013 04:40 AM, Raghavendra K T wrote: > This series replaces the existing paravirtualized spinlock mechanism > with a paravirtualized ticketlock mechanism. The series provides > implementation for both Xen and KVM. > > The current set of patches are for Xen/x86 spinlock/KVM guest side, to be included > against -tip. > What is the baseline for this patchset? I tried to apply it on top of 3.11-rc4 and I got nontrivial conflicts. -hpa