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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
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	Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
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	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
	Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 05/11] pvqspinlock, x86: Allow unfair spinlock in a PV guest
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 09:16:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <532800F0.10009@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140317185447.GM25546@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net>

Il 17/03/2014 19:54, Peter Zijlstra ha scritto:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 01:44:34PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
>> The PV ticketlock code was designed to handle lock holder preemption by
>> redirecting CPU resources in a preempted guest to another guest that can
>> better use it and then return the preempted CPU back sooner.
>
> But that's the PV code, not the unfair bit. And your fuller PV thing
> doesn't need the unfair option.
>

I agree.  You need three cases:

* non-virt, non-PV: regular qspinlock

* virt (X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR), non-PV: test-and-set

* virt, PV: disables test-and-set, adds PV waiting to qspinlock

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-18  8:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-12 18:54 [PATCH v6 00/11] qspinlock: a 4-byte queue spinlock with PV support Waiman Long
2014-03-12 18:54 ` [PATCH v6 01/11] qspinlock: A generic 4-byte queue spinlock implementation Waiman Long
2014-03-12 18:54 ` [PATCH v6 02/11] qspinlock, x86: Enable x86-64 to use queue spinlock Waiman Long
2014-03-12 18:54 ` [PATCH v6 03/11] qspinlock: More optimized code for smaller NR_CPUS Waiman Long
2014-03-12 18:54 ` [PATCH v6 04/11] qspinlock: Optimized code path for 2 contending tasks Waiman Long
2014-03-12 19:08   ` Waiman Long
2014-03-13 13:57     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-17 17:23       ` Waiman Long
2014-03-12 18:54 ` [PATCH v6 05/11] pvqspinlock, x86: Allow unfair spinlock in a PV guest Waiman Long
2014-03-13 10:54   ` David Vrabel
2014-03-13 13:16     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-17 19:05       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-03-18  8:14         ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-19  3:15           ` Waiman Long
     [not found]           ` <53290BCD.8010001@hp.com>
2014-03-19 10:07             ` Paolo Bonzini
     [not found]             ` <53296C6F.7040709@redhat.com>
2014-03-19 16:58               ` Waiman Long
     [not found]               ` <5329CCAA.9000909@hp.com>
2014-03-19 17:08                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-13 19:03     ` Waiman Long
2014-03-13 15:15   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-13 20:05     ` Waiman Long
2014-03-14  8:30       ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-14  8:48         ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-17 17:44         ` Waiman Long
2014-03-17 18:54           ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-18  8:16             ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-03-19  3:08             ` Waiman Long
2014-03-17 19:10           ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-03-19  3:11             ` Waiman Long
2014-03-19 15:25               ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-03-12 18:54 ` [PATCH v6 06/11] pvqspinlock, x86: Allow unfair queue spinlock in a KVM guest Waiman Long
2014-03-12 18:54 ` [PATCH v6 07/11] pvqspinlock, x86: Allow unfair queue spinlock in a XEN guest Waiman Long
2014-03-12 18:54 ` [PATCH v6 08/11] pvqspinlock, x86: Rename paravirt_ticketlocks_enabled Waiman Long
2014-03-12 18:54 ` [PATCH RFC v6 09/11] pvqspinlock, x86: Add qspinlock para-virtualization support Waiman Long
2014-03-12 18:54 ` [PATCH RFC v6 10/11] pvqspinlock, x86: Enable qspinlock PV support for KVM Waiman Long
2014-03-12 18:54 ` [PATCH RFC v6 11/11] pvqspinlock, x86: Enable qspinlock PV support for XEN Waiman Long
     [not found] ` <1394650498-30118-10-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com>
2014-03-13 11:21   ` [PATCH RFC v6 09/11] pvqspinlock, x86: Add qspinlock para-virtualization support David Vrabel
2014-03-13 13:57     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-13 19:05     ` Waiman Long
     [not found]     ` <5321B959.5050305@redhat.com>
2014-03-13 19:49       ` Waiman Long
     [not found]       ` <53220BBC.4040608@hp.com>
2014-03-14  9:44         ` Paolo Bonzini
     [not found] ` <1394650498-30118-11-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com>
2014-03-13 13:59   ` [PATCH RFC v6 10/11] pvqspinlock, x86: Enable qspinlock PV support for KVM Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-13 19:13     ` Waiman Long
2014-03-14  8:42       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-17 17:47         ` Waiman Long
2014-03-18  8:18           ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-13 15:25   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-03-13 20:09     ` Waiman Long

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