From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiannan Ouyang <ouyang@cs.pitt.edu>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Avi Kivity <avi.kivity@gmail.com>, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
Srikar <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"Nikunj A. Dadhania" <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>,
"Andrew M. Theurer" <habanero@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <srivatsa.vaddagiri@gmail.com>,
Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>, Karen Noel <knoel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Preemptable Ticket Spinlock
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:51:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1366631460.4443.3.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51745650.9050204@redhat.com>
On Sun, 2013-04-21 at 17:12 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> If we always incremented the ticket number by 2 (instead of 1), then
> we could use the lower bit of the ticket number as the spinlock.
ISTR that paravirt ticket locks already do that and use the lsb to
indicate the unlock needs to perform wakeups.
Also, since all of this is virt nonsense, shouldn't it live in the
paravirt ticket lock code and leave the native code as is?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-22 11:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2013-04-21 21:12 ` Preemptable Ticket Spinlock Rik van Riel
2013-04-21 23:07 ` Jiannan Ouyang
2013-04-22 5:59 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-04-22 11:51 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2013-04-22 12:52 ` Rik van Riel
2013-04-22 19:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-04-22 19:56 ` Rik van Riel
2013-04-22 20:05 ` Jiannan Ouyang
2013-04-22 20:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-04-22 20:32 ` Rik van Riel
2013-04-22 20:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-04-22 20:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-04-22 20:50 ` Rik van Riel
2013-04-22 20:50 ` Jiannan Ouyang
2013-04-22 20:54 ` Chegu Vinod
2013-04-22 20:46 ` Jiannan Ouyang
2013-04-22 20:49 ` Rik van Riel
2013-04-22 21:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-04-23 5:03 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-04-22 20:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-04-22 21:31 ` Jiannan Ouyang
2013-04-22 23:08 ` Rik van Riel
2013-04-23 5:57 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-23 1:42 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-05-30 11:56 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-05-30 20:14 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-04-22 21:56 ` Andi Kleen
2013-04-22 23:13 ` Rik van Riel
2013-04-22 5:58 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-04-22 16:42 ` Jiannan Ouyang
2013-04-23 1:54 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-04-26 20:10 ` Andrew Theurer
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