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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

Hi, another issue I''m seeing with 3.0-rc2 and Xen is that there is an unexpectedly high amount of kernel reserved memory. I suspect that Linux allocates page table entries and corresponding data structures for the whole 6GB areas of the provided ''physical RAM map'' even though it has rather big unusable holes in it. [ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map: [

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