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From: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Marcos Matsunaga <Marcos.Matsunaga@oracle.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@gmail.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
	Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>,
	Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>,
	Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>,
	boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/10] qspinlock: a 4-byte queue spinlock with PV support
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 16:35:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <533C7485.3030203@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140402143201.GF12188@phenom.dumpdata.com>

On 04/02/2014 10:32 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 09:27:29AM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
>> N.B. Sorry for the duplicate. This patch series were resent as the
>>       original one was rejected by the vger.kernel.org list server
>>       due to long header. There is no change in content.
>>
>> v7->v8:
>>    - Remove one unneeded atomic operation from the slowpath, thus
>>      improving performance.
>>    - Simplify some of the codes and add more comments.
>>    - Test for X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR CPU feature bit to enable/disable
>>      unfair lock.
>>    - Reduce unfair lock slowpath lock stealing frequency depending
>>      on its distance from the queue head.
>>    - Add performance data for IvyBridge-EX CPU.
> FYI, your v7 patch with 32 VCPUs (on a 32 cpu socket machine) on an
> HVM guest under Xen after a while stops working. The workload
> is doing 'make -j32' on the Linux kernel.
>
> Completely unresponsive. Thoughts?
>

Thank for reporting that. I haven't done that much testing on Xen. My 
focus was in KVM. I will perform more test on Xen to see if I can 
reproduce the problem.

-Longman

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-02 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-02 13:27 [PATCH v8 00/10] qspinlock: a 4-byte queue spinlock with PV support Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27 ` [PATCH v8 01/10] qspinlock: A generic 4-byte queue spinlock implementation Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27   ` Waiman Long
2014-04-04 13:00   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-04 13:00     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-04 14:59     ` Waiman Long
2014-04-04 14:59       ` Waiman Long
2014-04-04 17:53       ` Ingo Molnar
2014-04-04 17:53         ` Ingo Molnar
2014-04-07 14:16       ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-07 14:16         ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-04 16:57     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-04 16:57       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-04 17:08       ` Waiman Long
2014-04-04 17:08         ` Waiman Long
2014-04-04 17:54         ` Ingo Molnar
2014-04-04 17:54           ` Ingo Molnar
2014-04-07 14:09         ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-07 14:09           ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-07 16:59           ` Waiman Long
2014-04-07 16:59             ` Waiman Long
2014-04-07 14:12       ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-07 14:12         ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-07 14:33         ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-07 14:33           ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-02 13:27 ` [PATCH v8 02/10] qspinlock, x86: Enable x86-64 to use queue spinlock Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27   ` Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27 ` [PATCH v8 03/10] qspinlock: More optimized code for smaller NR_CPUS Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27   ` Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27 ` [PATCH v8 04/10] qspinlock: Optimized code path for 2 contending tasks Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27 ` [PATCH v8 05/10] pvqspinlock, x86: Allow unfair spinlock in a PV guest Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27   ` Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27 ` [PATCH v8 06/10] pvqspinlock: Enable lock stealing in queue lock waiters Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27 ` [PATCH v8 07/10] pvqspinlock, x86: Rename paravirt_ticketlocks_enabled Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27   ` Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27 ` [PATCH v8 08/10] pvqspinlock, x86: Add qspinlock para-virtualization support Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27   ` Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27 ` [PATCH v8 09/10] pvqspinlock, x86: Enable qspinlock PV support for KVM Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27 ` [PATCH v8 10/10] pvqspinlock, x86: Enable qspinlock PV support for XEN Waiman Long
2014-04-02 13:27   ` Waiman Long
2014-04-02 14:39   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-02 14:39     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-02 20:38     ` Waiman Long
2014-04-02 20:38       ` Waiman Long
2014-04-02 14:32 ` [PATCH v8 00/10] qspinlock: a 4-byte queue spinlock with PV support Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-02 14:32   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-02 20:35   ` Waiman Long [this message]
2014-04-03  2:10     ` Waiman Long
2014-04-03  2:10       ` Waiman Long
2014-04-03 17:23       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-03 17:23         ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-04  2:57         ` Waiman Long
2014-04-04  2:57           ` Waiman Long
2014-04-04 16:55           ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-04 16:55             ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-04 17:13             ` Waiman Long
2014-04-04 17:13               ` Waiman Long
2014-04-04 17:58               ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-04 17:58                 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-04 18:33                 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-04 18:33                   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-04 18:14             ` Marcos E. Matsunaga
2014-04-04 15:25   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-04 15:25     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-04-07  6:14 ` Raghavendra K T
2014-04-07 16:38   ` Waiman Long
2014-04-07 16:38     ` Waiman Long
2014-04-07 17:51     ` Raghavendra K T
2014-04-07 17:51       ` Raghavendra K T
2014-04-08 19:15       ` Waiman Long
2014-04-08 19:15         ` Waiman Long
2014-04-09 12:08         ` Raghavendra K T
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-04-01 20:47 Waiman Long

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