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From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 19:16:11 +0530
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* Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2012-05-07 19:08:51]:

> I 'll get hold of a PLE mc  and come up with the numbers soon. but I
> 'll expect the improvement around 1-3% as it was in last version.

Deferring preemption (when vcpu is holding lock) may give us better than 1-3% 
results on PLE hardware. Something worth trying IMHO.

- vatsa