From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Christoph Egger <chegger@amazon.de>, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] gnttab: Improve scaleability
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 11:00:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <547D9BB9.7010305@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1417514784-15749-1-git-send-email-chegger@amazon.de>
On 02/12/14 10:06, Christoph Egger wrote:
> This patch series changes the grant table locking to
> a more fain grained locking protocol. The result is
> a performance boost measured with blkfront/blkback.
> Document the locking protocol.
>
> [PATCH 1/2] gnttab: Introduce rwlock to protect updates to grant
> [PATCH 2/2] gnttab: refactor locking for scalability
XenServer has been using the original version of this patch (forward
ported a little), and it makes significant improvements to our scalability.
I highly recommend this for inclusion, although for 4.6 at this point.
~Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-02 11:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-02 10:06 [PATCH 0/2] gnttab: Improve scaleability Christoph Egger
2014-12-02 10:06 ` [PATCH 1/2] gnttab: Introduce rwlock to protect updates to grant table state Christoph Egger
2014-12-02 11:28 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-12-02 12:35 ` Julien Grall
2014-12-02 13:03 ` Egger, Christoph
2014-12-02 13:08 ` Julien Grall
2014-12-02 13:18 ` Egger, Christoph
2014-12-02 10:06 ` [PATCH 2/2] gnttab: refactor locking for scalability Christoph Egger
2014-12-02 11:00 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2014-12-02 11:08 ` [PATCH 0/2] gnttab: Improve scaleability Egger, Christoph
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