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

From: Raghavendra K T
Date: Mon May 07 2012 - 09:57:17 EST


On 05/07/2012 07:16 PM, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
* 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.


Yes, Sure. 'll take-up this and any scalability improvement possible further.

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