From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755244Ab0F3Jd3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:33:29 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:20923 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755003Ab0F3Jd1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:33:27 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:32:51 +0300 From: Gleb Natapov To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Jan Beulich , mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com, jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com, Ky Srinivasan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4, v2] x86: enlightenment for ticket spin locks - base implementation Message-ID: <20100630093251.GW4689@redhat.com> References: <4C2A1FE902000078000089E1@vpn.id2.novell.com> <1277885133.1868.71.camel@laptop> <1277889996.1868.106.camel@laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1277889996.1868.106.camel@laptop> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:26:36AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 10:05 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > +config ENLIGHTEN_SPINLOCKS > > > > Why exactly are these enlightened? > > Or did I just miss a terribly pun: > enlightenment -> Buddha -> Zen -> Xen ? Enlightenment is also a term that MS uses to describe their PV guests which makes this name very confusing in Xen context. When I saw this patch series I thought it has something to do with Hyper-V. -- Gleb.