On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 07:36:23PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> With virt_spin_lock() being guarded by a static key the bare metal case
> can be optimized by patching the call away completely. In case a kernel
> running as a guest it can decide whether to use paravitualized
> spinlocks, the curren
On 09/25/2017 09:59 AM, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Ping?
>
> On 06/09/17 19:36, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> With virt_spin_lock() being guarded by a static key the bare metal case
>> can be optimized by patching the call away completely. In case a kernel
>> running as a guest it can decide whether to use p
Ping?
On 06/09/17 19:36, Juergen Gross wrote:
> With virt_spin_lock() being guarded by a static key the bare metal case
> can be optimized by patching the call away completely. In case a kernel
> running as a guest it can decide whether to use paravitualized
> spinlocks, the current fallback to th
With virt_spin_lock() being guarded by a static key the bare metal case
can be optimized by patching the call away completely. In case a kernel
running as a guest it can decide whether to use paravitualized
spinlocks, the current fallback to the unfair test-and-set scheme, or
to mimic the bare meta
