From: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: jeremy@goop.org, gregkh@suse.de, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
peterz@infradead.org, drjones@redhat.com,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, andi@firstfloor.org,
hpa@zytor.com, stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com,
xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
x86@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, habanero@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
riel@redhat.com, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, ouyang@cs.pitt.edu,
avi.kivity@gmail.com, tglx@linutronix.de, chegu_vinod@hp.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, srivatsa.vaddagiri@gmail.com,
attilio.rao@citrix.com, pbonzini@redhat.com,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC V11 15/18] kvm : Paravirtual ticketlocks support for linux guests running on KVM hypervisor
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 16:12:08 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51FF8180.10207@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130805094603.GA29303@gmail.com>
>> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-05 10:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-22 6:16 [PATCH RFC V11 0/18] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks Raghavendra K T
2013-07-22 6:16 ` [PATCH RFC V11 1/18] x86/spinlock: Replace pv spinlocks with pv ticketlocks Raghavendra K T
2013-07-22 6:17 ` [PATCH RFC V11 2/18] x86/ticketlock: Don't inline _spin_unlock when using paravirt spinlocks Raghavendra K T
2013-07-22 6:17 ` [PATCH RFC V11 3/18] x86/ticketlock: Collapse a layer of functions Raghavendra K T
2013-07-22 6:17 ` [PATCH RFC V11 4/18] xen: Defer spinlock setup until boot CPU setup Raghavendra K T
2013-07-22 6:17 ` [PATCH RFC V11 5/18] xen/pvticketlock: Xen implementation for PV ticket locks Raghavendra K T
2013-07-22 6:17 ` [PATCH RFC V11 6/18] xen/pvticketlocks: Add xen_nopvspin parameter to disable xen pv ticketlocks Raghavendra K T
2013-07-22 6:18 ` [PATCH RFC V11 7/18] x86/pvticketlock: Use callee-save for lock_spinning Raghavendra K T
2013-07-22 6:18 ` [PATCH RFC V11 8/18] x86/pvticketlock: When paravirtualizing ticket locks, increment by 2 Raghavendra K T
2013-07-22 6:18 ` [PATCH RFC V11 9/18] jump_label: Split out rate limiting from jump_label.h Raghavendra K T
2013-07-22 6:18 ` [PATCH RFC V11 10/18] x86/ticketlock: Add slowpath logic Raghavendra K T
2013-07-22 6:19 ` [PATCH RFC V11 11/18] xen/pvticketlock: Allow interrupts to be enabled while blocking Raghavendra K T
2013-07-22 6:19 ` [PATCH RFC V11 12/18] kvm hypervisor : Add a hypercall to KVM hypervisor to support pv-ticketlocks Raghavendra K T
2013-07-22 6:19 ` [PATCH RFC V11 13/18] kvm : Fold pv_unhalt flag into GET_MP_STATE ioctl to aid migration Raghavendra K T
2013-07-22 6:20 ` [PATCH RFC V11 14/18] kvm guest : Add configuration support to enable debug information for KVM Guests Raghavendra K T
2013-07-22 6:20 ` [PATCH RFC V11 15/18] kvm : Paravirtual ticketlocks support for linux guests running on KVM hypervisor Raghavendra K T
2013-07-23 15:07 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-07-24 9:24 ` [PATCH RESEND " Raghavendra K T
2013-07-24 9:45 ` [PATCH " Raghavendra K T
2013-07-24 10:39 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-07-24 12:00 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-07-24 12:06 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-07-24 12:36 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-07-25 9:17 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-07-25 9:15 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-07-25 9:38 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-07-30 16:43 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-07-31 6:24 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-08-01 7:38 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-08-01 7:45 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-08-01 9:04 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-08-02 3:22 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-08-02 9:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-08-02 9:44 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-08-02 9:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-08-02 9:54 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-08-02 10:57 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-08-05 9:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-08-05 10:42 ` Raghavendra K T [this message]
[not found] ` <20130805095901.GL2258@redhat.com>
2013-08-05 13:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-08-05 14:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-05 14:39 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-08-05 14:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-05 15:37 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-07-22 6:20 ` [PATCH RFC V11 16/18] kvm hypervisor : Simplify kvm_for_each_vcpu with kvm_irq_delivery_to_apic Raghavendra K T
2013-07-22 6:20 ` [PATCH RFC V11 17/18] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls and features used for PV spinlock Raghavendra K T
2013-07-22 6:20 ` [PATCH RFC V11 18/18] kvm hypervisor: Add directed yield in vcpu block path Raghavendra K T
2013-07-22 19:36 ` [PATCH RFC V11 0/18] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-07-23 2:50 ` Raghavendra K T
2013-08-05 22:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-08-06 2:50 ` Raghavendra K T
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