Re: [PATCH 2/4, v2] x86: enlightenment for ticket spin locks - Xen implementation

Stefano Stabellini
2010-07-01T11:39:12Z

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 30.06.10 at 17:57, Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> >> On 06/29/2010 04:32 PM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> > Use the (alternative instructions based) callout hooks to the ticket
> >> > spinlock code to enlighten ticket locks when running fully virtualized
> >> > on Xen. Ultimately, this code might also be a candidate to be used
> >> > when running para-virtualized.
> >> >
> >>
> >> I'm not sure what the gain is by making this independent of all the rest
> >> of the Xen support in the kernel. Stefano is working on a series
> >> (posted a few times now) to add more paravirtual features for Xen HVM
> >> guests, and this work is conceptually very similar.
> >
> > My series has been stable since a while now and contains all the basic
> > PV on HVM mechanisms you need, including parsing the cpuid and mapping
> > the shared info page.
> >
> > Could you please rebase on my series (or at least the first two
> > patches), so that we don't conflict with each other?
>
> I really don't want to make those patches depend on no upstream
> stuff (as I want it accepted upstream), and I'm not sure when your
> patch series is expected to be upstream. If that's going to be soon,
> I'd just re-base after it happened.

Given that the patch series has been tested and reviewed several times
by now, I don't expect big changes any more.
Therefore I hope it will be accepted as soon as possible (keeping in
mind that we are in RC3 right now).