On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:53:52AM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > The reason for wanting this should be clear I guess, it allows PI. > > Well, if we can expand the spinlock to include an owner, then all this > becomes moot...
How so? Having an owner will not eliminate the need for pv-ticketlocks afaict. We still need a mechanism to reduce latency in scheduling the next thread-in-waiting, which is achieved by your patches. - vatsa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
