On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 13:02 -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > As a heuristic, it shouldn't be too bad performancewise, since > (handwaving) if ticketholder N has entered the slowpath, then its likely > that N+1 will as well.
Yes, esp. if the whole slow unlock path takes more cycles than you spin for to begin with. I think this approach is definitely worth trying. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
