Displaying 3 results from an estimated 3 matches for "init_irqsoff_tracer".
2008 Jul 07
10
[PATCH RFC 0/4] Paravirtual spinlocks
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
2008 Jul 07
10
[PATCH RFC 0/4] Paravirtual spinlocks
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
2008 Jul 07
10
[PATCH RFC 0/4] Paravirtual spinlocks
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