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...r's array size. > + */ Please use: * Return: The number of free page blocks obtained from the free page list. Also, please include a * Context: Any context. or * Context: Process context. or whatever other conetext this function can be called from. Since you're taking the lock irqsafe, I assume this can be called from any context, but I wonder if it makes sense to have this function callable from interrupt context. Maybe this should be callable from process context only. > +uint32_t get_from_free_page_list(int order, __le64 buf[], uint32_t size) > +{ > + struct zone *...

...e spinlocks, allowing multiple readers + * but only one writer. + * + * NOTE! it is quite common to have readers in interrupts + * but no interrupt writers. For those circumstances we + * can "mix" irq-safe locks - any writer needs to get a + * irq-safe write-lock, but readers can get non-irqsafe + * read-locks. + */ + +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64 +#define __DO_SIGN_EXTEND "extsw %0,%0\n" +#define WRLOCK_TOKEN LOCK_TOKEN /* it's negative */ +#else +#define __DO_SIGN_EXTEND +#define WRLOCK_TOKEN (-1) +#endif + +/* + * This returns the old value in the lock + 1, + * so we got a read l...

v2 is updated to account for feedback from Will, Peter, and Waiman (thank you), and trims off a couple of RFC and unrelated patches. Thanks, Nick Nicholas Piggin (6): powerpc/powernv: must include hvcall.h to get PAPR defines powerpc/pseries: move some PAPR paravirt functions to their own file powerpc: move spinlock implementation to simple_spinlock powerpc/64s: implement queued

Updated with everybody's feedback (thanks all), and more performance results. What I've found is I might have been measuring the worst load point for the paravirt case, and by looking at a range of loads it's clear that queued spinlocks are overall better even on PV, doubly so when you look at the generally much improved worst case latencies. I have defaulted it to N even though

This series adds an option to use queued spinlocks for powerpc, and makes it the default for the Book3S-64 subarch. This effort starts with the generic code so it's very simple but still very performant. There are optimisations that can be made to slowpaths, but I think it's better to attack those incrementally if/when we find things, and try to add the improvements to generic code as

v3 is updated to use __pv_queued_spin_unlock, noticed by Waiman (thank you). Thanks, Nick Nicholas Piggin (6): powerpc/powernv: must include hvcall.h to get PAPR defines powerpc/pseries: move some PAPR paravirt functions to their own file powerpc: move spinlock implementation to simple_spinlock powerpc/64s: implement queued spinlocks and rwlocks powerpc/pseries: implement paravirt

v3 is updated to use __pv_queued_spin_unlock, noticed by Waiman (thank you). Thanks, Nick Nicholas Piggin (6): powerpc/powernv: must include hvcall.h to get PAPR defines powerpc/pseries: move some PAPR paravirt functions to their own file powerpc: move spinlock implementation to simple_spinlock powerpc/64s: implement queued spinlocks and rwlocks powerpc/pseries: implement paravirt

This patch series is separated from the previous "Virtio-balloon Enhancement" series. The new feature, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT, implemented by this series enables the virtio-balloon driver to report hints of guest free pages to the host. It can be used to accelerate live migration of VMs. Here is an introduction of this usage: Live migration needs to transfer the VM's

This patch series is separated from the previous "Virtio-balloon Enhancement" series. The new feature, VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT, implemented by this series enables the virtio-balloon driver to report hints of guest free pages to the host. It can be used to accelerate live migration of VMs. Here is an introduction of this usage: Live migration needs to transfer the VM's