Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks

From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri
Date: Mon May 07 2012 - 09:46:20 EST


* Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2012-05-07 19:08:51]:

> I 'll get hold of a PLE mc and come up with the numbers soon. but I
> 'll expect the improvement around 1-3% as it was in last version.

Deferring preemption (when vcpu is holding lock) may give us better than 1-3%
results on PLE hardware. Something worth trying IMHO.

- vatsa

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