Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:31:14 -0400 | From | Jiannan Ouyang <> | Subject | Re: Preemptable Ticket Spinlock |
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On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > Which pv_lock? The current pv spinlock mess is basically the old unfair > thing. The later patch series I referred to earlier implemented a > paravirt ticket lock, that should perform much better under overcommit. >
Yes, it is a paravirt *ticket* spinck. I got the patch from Raghavendra K T through email http://lwn.net/Articles/495597/
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