From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
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"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Alexander Fyodorov <halcy@yandex.ru>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale.com>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>, George Spelvin <linux@hor>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v5 7/8] pvqspinlock, x86: Add qspinlock para-virtualization support
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:45:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <530F4F98.2080308@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <530F4949.4050706@citrix.com>
Il 27/02/2014 15:18, David Vrabel ha scritto:
> On 27/02/14 13:11, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Il 27/02/2014 13:11, David Vrabel ha scritto:
>>>>> This patch adds para-virtualization support to the queue spinlock code
>>>>> by enabling the queue head to kick the lock holder CPU, if known,
>>>>> in when the lock isn't released for a certain amount of time. It
>>>>> also enables the mutual monitoring of the queue head CPU and the
>>>>> following node CPU in the queue to make sure that their CPUs will
>>>>> stay scheduled in.
>>> I'm not really understanding how this is supposed to work. There
>>> appears to be an assumption that a guest can keep one of its VCPUs
>>> running by repeatedly kicking it? This is not possible under Xen and I
>>> doubt it's possible under KVM or any other hypervisor.
>>
>> KVM allows any VCPU to wake up a currently halted VCPU of its choice,
>> see Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt.
>
> But neither of the VCPUs being kicked here are halted -- they're either
> running or runnable (descheduled by the hypervisor).
/me actually looks at Waiman's code...
Right, this is really different from pvticketlocks, where the *unlock*
primitive wakes up a sleeping VCPU. It is more similar to PLE
(pause-loop exiting).
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-27 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 115+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-26 15:14 [PATCH v5 0/8] qspinlock: a 4-byte queue spinlock with PV support Waiman Long
2014-02-26 15:14 ` [PATCH v5 1/8] qspinlock: Introducing a 4-byte queue spinlock implementation Waiman Long
2014-02-26 16:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-26 16:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-27 20:25 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 20:25 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-26 16:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-26 16:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-27 20:25 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 20:25 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-26 15:14 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-26 15:14 ` [PATCH v5 2/8] qspinlock, x86: Enable x86-64 to use queue spinlock Waiman Long
2014-02-26 15:14 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-26 15:14 ` [PATCH v5 3/8] qspinlock, x86: Add x86 specific optimization for 2 contending tasks Waiman Long
2014-02-26 16:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-27 20:42 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 20:42 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-28 9:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 9:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 16:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-02-28 16:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-02-28 17:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 17:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 16:38 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-28 17:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 17:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-03 17:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-03 17:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-04 15:27 ` Waiman Long
2014-03-04 15:27 ` Waiman Long
2014-03-04 16:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-04 18:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-04 18:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-04 16:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-04 17:48 ` Waiman Long
2014-03-04 17:48 ` Waiman Long
2014-03-04 22:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-05 20:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-05 20:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-04 22:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-28 16:38 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-26 16:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-26 15:14 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-26 15:14 ` [PATCH RFC v5 4/8] pvqspinlock, x86: Allow unfair spinlock in a real PV environment Waiman Long
2014-02-26 15:14 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-26 17:07 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-02-26 17:07 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-02-28 17:06 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-28 17:06 ` Waiman Long
2014-03-03 10:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-03 10:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-04 15:15 ` Waiman Long
2014-03-04 15:23 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-04 15:23 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-04 15:39 ` David Vrabel
2014-03-04 15:39 ` David Vrabel
2014-03-04 17:50 ` Raghavendra K T
2014-03-04 17:50 ` Raghavendra K T
2014-03-04 15:15 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 12:28 ` David Vrabel
2014-02-27 12:28 ` David Vrabel
2014-02-27 19:40 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 19:40 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-26 15:14 ` [PATCH RFC v5 5/8] pvqspinlock, x86: Enable unfair queue spinlock in a KVM guest Waiman Long
2014-02-26 15:14 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-26 17:08 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-02-26 17:08 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-02-28 17:08 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-28 17:08 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 9:41 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-27 19:05 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 19:05 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 9:41 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-27 10:40 ` Raghavendra K T
2014-02-27 10:40 ` Raghavendra K T
2014-02-27 19:12 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 19:12 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-26 15:14 ` [PATCH RFC v5 6/8] pvqspinlock, x86: Rename paravirt_ticketlocks_enabled Waiman Long
2014-02-26 15:14 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-26 15:14 ` [PATCH RFC v5 7/8] pvqspinlock, x86: Add qspinlock para-virtualization support Waiman Long
2014-02-26 17:54 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-02-26 17:54 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-02-27 12:11 ` David Vrabel
2014-02-27 13:11 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-27 13:11 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-27 14:18 ` David Vrabel
2014-02-27 14:18 ` David Vrabel
2014-02-27 14:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-27 14:45 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-02-27 15:22 ` Raghavendra K T
2014-02-27 15:50 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-27 15:50 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-03 11:06 ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2014-03-03 11:06 ` David Vrabel
2014-02-27 20:50 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 20:50 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 15:22 ` Raghavendra K T
2014-02-27 19:42 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 19:42 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 12:11 ` David Vrabel
2014-02-26 15:14 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-26 15:14 ` [PATCH RFC v5 8/8] pvqspinlock, x86: Enable KVM to use qspinlock's PV support Waiman Long
2014-02-26 15:14 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 9:31 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-27 18:36 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 18:36 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 9:31 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-26 17:00 ` [PATCH v5 0/8] qspinlock: a 4-byte queue spinlock with " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-02-28 16:56 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-28 16:56 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-26 17:00 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-02-26 22:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-02-26 22:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-02-27 4:32 Waiman Long
2014-02-27 4:32 ` [PATCH RFC v5 7/8] pvqspinlock, x86: Add qspinlock para-virtualization support Waiman Long
2014-02-27 4:32 ` Waiman Long
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