On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 11:38 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > That said, I still thoroughly dislike this whole approach. > > > > Can you explain why? We have a thread that has detected that it's > spinning. Keeping on spinning is a waste of cpu time. Why not let > something else use the cpu?
Because its a polling interface. I much prefer it if we were to get a wakeup notification when the vcpu holding the lock releases it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
