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At the most recent Xen Summit, Thomas Friebel presented a paper ("Preventing Guests from Spinning Around", http://xen.org/files/xensummitboston08/LHP.pdf) investigating the interactions between spinlocks and virtual machines. Specifically, he looked at what happens when a lock-holding VCPU gets involuntarily preempted. The obvious first order effect is that while the VCPU is not

At the most recent Xen Summit, Thomas Friebel presented a paper ("Preventing Guests from Spinning Around", http://xen.org/files/xensummitboston08/LHP.pdf) investigating the interactions between spinlocks and virtual machines. Specifically, he looked at what happens when a lock-holding VCPU gets involuntarily preempted. The obvious first order effect is that while the VCPU is not

At the most recent Xen Summit, Thomas Friebel presented a paper ("Preventing Guests from Spinning Around", http://xen.org/files/xensummitboston08/LHP.pdf) investigating the interactions between spinlocks and virtual machines. Specifically, he looked at what happens when a lock-holding VCPU gets involuntarily preempted. The obvious first order effect is that while the VCPU is not

Lots of changes since v2, too much to remember or summarize. Please ignore patch 11/11, it's just for my testing. Rich.