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>> That result was only for patch 18 of the series, not pvspinlock in
>> general.
>
> Okay - I've re-read the performance numbers and they are impressive, so no
> objections from me.
>
> The x86 impact seems to be a straightforward API change, with most of the
> changes on the virtualization side. So:
>
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
>
> I guess you'd want to carry this in the KVM tree or so - maybe in a
> separate branch because it changes Xen as well?
>

Thank you Ingo for taking a relook.

Gleb, Please let me know if you want me to resend the first 17 patches
with acked-bys. i.e excluding the 18th patch.