From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: kurt.hackel@oracle.com, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com,
xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, jeremy@goop.org
Subject: Re: Linux v3.12 + pv ticketlocks.
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 10:03:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130909140314.GI21435@phenom.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1378723192.19967.41.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com>
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 11:39:52AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-09-06 at 16:11 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > Linux v3.12 (which is now in merge window phase) has the code for
> > making the spinlock use ticketlocks for everything.
>
> Congrats!
Thank you. Albeit most of the credit goes to folks you and me mentioned
and as well Raghavendra K T for tirelessly picking it up and
upstreaming it.
>
> > Majority of that work was done by Jeremy Fitzhardinge and I would like
> > to thank him for doing this work. It had taken a year (or more) to actually
>
> Way more that a year, wasn't it? This stuff has been floating around for
> 3 or 4 years or longer IIRC.
Wow. Time does not exist for me. Everything that has not yet been done
in my mind is "last year" :-)
>
> BTW Attilio Rao did some upstreaming work and a bunch of measurement
> stuff too.
And a nice Wiki entry:
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Benchmarking_the_new_PV_ticketlock_implementation
and an awesome blog entry:
http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2012/05/11/benchmarking-the-new-pv-ticketlock-implementation/
>
> Ian.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-09 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-06 20:11 Linux v3.12 + pv ticketlocks Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-09-09 10:39 ` Ian Campbell
2013-09-09 14:03 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2013-09-10 17:41 ` Dario Faggioli
2013-09-11 19:03 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-09-13 15:17 ` Dario Faggioli
2013-09-13 4:44 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2013-09-11 18:25 ` Sander Eikelenboom
2013-09-11 18:41 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-09-11 19:05 ` Sander Eikelenboom
2013-09-11 19:24 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
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