From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Waiman Long Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 1/1] locking/qspinlock/x86: Avoid test-and-set when PV_DEDICATED is set Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 14:12:13 -0400 Message-ID: <45bf1347-1d88-0c2c-77cb-a75da3b01149@redhat.com> References: <1509644731-2249-1-git-send-email-eduval@amazon.com> <6bd9aee8-1d9e-d088-d13d-653c0628b394@redhat.com> <20171102180854.GA27676@u40b0340c692b58f6553c.ant.amazon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: rkrcmar@redhat.com, Matt Wilson , Jonathan Corbet , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , x86@kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Jan H . Schoenherr" , Anthony Liguori To: Eduardo Valentin , Paolo Bonzini Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20171102180854.GA27676@u40b0340c692b58f6553c.ant.amazon.com> Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On 11/02/2017 02:08 PM, Eduardo Valentin wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 06:56:46PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> On 02/11/2017 18:45, Eduardo Valentin wrote: >>> Currently, the existing qspinlock implementation will fallback to >>> test-and-set if the hypervisor has not set the PV_UNHALT flag. >>> >>> This patch gives the opportunity to guest kernels to select >>> between test-and-set and the regular queueu fair lock implementation >>> based on the PV_DEDICATED KVM feature flag. When the PV_DEDICATED >>> flag is not set, the code will still fall back to test-and-set, >>> but when the PV_DEDICATED flag is set, the code will use >>> the regular queue spinlock implementation. >> Have you seen Waiman's series that lets you specify this on the guest >> command line instead? Would this be acceptable for your use case? >> > No, can you please share a link to it? is it already merged to tip/master? See https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/1/655 Cheers, Longman