Re: [PATCH] use unfair spinlock when running on hypervisor.

Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-06-02T05:26:38Z

On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 05:51:14AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> That's definitely the long term plan. I consider Gleb's patch the
> first step.
>
> Do you have any idea how we can tackle both problems?

I recall Xen posting some solution for a similar problem:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/29/45

Wouldn't a similar approach help KVM as well?

- vatsa