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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: "Langsdorf, Mark" <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent immediate process rescheduling
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:55:58 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AB6A4EE.3060904@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DDE95BDD51FB774B804A9C029E735EE10379BEDA2F@sausexmbp02.amd.com>

On 09/21/2009 12:03 AM, Langsdorf, Mark wrote:
>> - we can pick one of the vcpus belonging to the same guest to improve
>> the probability that the lock actually get released
>>      
> Is there a way to find the other vcpus belonging to the
> same guest?  I poked around at that, but couldn't find
> one.
>    

vcpu->kvm->vcpus[].  It doesn't give you the task_struct, but we can 
easily save it in vcpu_load() and release it in vcpu_put().


-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.


      reply	other threads:[~2009-09-20 21:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-18 19:49 [PATCH] Prevent immediate process rescheduling Mark Langsdorf
2009-09-18 19:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-09-18 20:00   ` Langsdorf, Mark
2009-09-18 20:03   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-19  2:16     ` Mike Galbraith
2009-09-19  9:03       ` Mike Galbraith
2009-09-19  8:31     ` Avi Kivity
2009-09-20 21:03       ` Langsdorf, Mark
2009-09-20 21:55         ` Avi Kivity [this message]

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