Re: [PATCH 0 of 4] Xen spinlock updates and performancemeasurements

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Aug 21 2008 - 07:53:41 EST



* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Ingo,
>
> This series has some updates to Xen's spinlock implementation,
> including adding a set of performance measurements in debugfs.
>
> The series consists of:
> - correctly deal with a spinlock in an interrupt handler interrupting
> another spinlock spinning on a lock. [2.6.27 bugfix]
> - Add Xen debugfs support, including performance metrics for
> spinlocks, multicalls and mmu operations.
> - Allow interrupts to be enabled while spinning (blocking) for a lock
> - Measure time spinlocks spend blocked

applied to tip/x86/xen - thanks Jeremy.

Ingo
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