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

Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-06-03T13:04:55Z

On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 06:28:21PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> Ok got it - although that approach is not advisable in some cases for ex: when
> the lock holder vcpu and lock acquired vcpu are scheduled on the same pcpu by
> the hypervisor (which was experimented with in [1] where they foud a huge hit in
> perf).

1. http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/4/13/464

- vatsa