Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc ticket locks

[Torsten Duwe]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 03:23:51PM +0530, Raghavendra KT wrote:
> How much important to have holder information for PPC? From my
> previous experiment
> on x86, it was lock-waiter preemption which is problematic rather than
> lock-holder preemption.

It's something very special to IBM pSeries: the hypervisor can assign
fractions of physical CPUs to guests. Sometimes a guest with 4 quarter
CPUs will be faster than 1 monoprocessor. (correct me if I'm wrong).

The directed yield resolves the silly situation when holder and waiter
reside on the same physical CPU, as I understand it.

x86 has nothing comparable.

	Torsten

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