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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/4, v2] x86: enlightenment for ticket spin locks - base implementation
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:26:36AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 10:05 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > +config ENLIGHTEN_SPINLOCKS
> >
> > Why exactly are these enlightened?
>
> Or did I just miss a terribly pun:
> enlightenment -> Buddha -> Zen -> Xen ?
Enlightenment is also a term that MS uses to describe their PV guests
which makes this name very confusing in Xen context. When I saw this
patch series I thought it has something to do with Hyper-V.

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Gleb.


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