On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 17:29 +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > > If we had a yield-to [1] sort of interface _and_ information on which vcpu > owns a lock, then lock-spinners can yield-to the owning vcpu,
and then I'd nak it for being stupid ;-) really, yield*() is retarded, never even consider using it. If you've got the actual owner you can do full blown PI, which is tons better than a 'do-something-random' call. The only reason the whole non-virt pause loop filtering muck uses it is because it really doesn't know anything, and do-something is pretty much all it can do. Its a broken interface. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
