Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Jul 2010 12:39:25 +0100 | From | Stefano Stabellini <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/4, v2] x86: enlightenment for ticket spin locks - Xen implementation |
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On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 30.06.10 at 17:57, Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> > wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > >> On 06/29/2010 04:32 PM, Jan Beulich wrote: > >> > Use the (alternative instructions based) callout hooks to the ticket > >> > spinlock code to enlighten ticket locks when running fully virtualized > >> > on Xen. Ultimately, this code might also be a candidate to be used > >> > when running para-virtualized. > >> > > >> > >> I'm not sure what the gain is by making this independent of all the rest > >> of the Xen support in the kernel. Stefano is working on a series > >> (posted a few times now) to add more paravirtual features for Xen HVM > >> guests, and this work is conceptually very similar. > > > > My series has been stable since a while now and contains all the basic > > PV on HVM mechanisms you need, including parsing the cpuid and mapping > > the shared info page. > > > > Could you please rebase on my series (or at least the first two > > patches), so that we don't conflict with each other? > > I really don't want to make those patches depend on no upstream > stuff (as I want it accepted upstream), and I'm not sure when your > patch series is expected to be upstream. If that's going to be soon, > I'd just re-base after it happened.
Given that the patch series has been tested and reviewed several times by now, I don't expect big changes any more. Therefore I hope it will be accepted as soon as possible (keeping in mind that we are in RC3 right now).
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