From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:14:29 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch] remove vcpu_info array v5 Message-Id: <491AD6B5.7070308@redhat.com> List-Id: References: <4909C00F.8050704@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <4909C00F.8050704@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm-ia64@vger.kernel.org Glauber Costa wrote: > I think the main point here is that currently, one of the showstopers > for scalability, > is the lack of fine grained locking. And we don't really know how the > code will look like > after that. It can very well change completely, rendering this work as > totally void. > I don't think it will be that bad. Fine-graining locks is an art that is well known, and it's usually not too painful except to those who have to divine the locking rules from the code afterwards. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function