similar to: [PATCH RFC V10 0/18] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks

This series replaces the existing paravirtualized spinlock mechanism with a paravirtualized ticketlock mechanism. The series provides implementation for both Xen and KVM. Changes in V11: - use safe_halt in lock_spinning path to avoid potential problem in case of irq_handlers taking lock in slowpath (Gleb) - add a0 flag for the kick hypercall for future extension (Gleb) - add stubs for

This series replaces the existing paravirtualized spinlock mechanism with a paravirtualized ticketlock mechanism. The series provides implementation for both Xen and KVM. Changes in V11: - use safe_halt in lock_spinning path to avoid potential problem in case of irq_handlers taking lock in slowpath (Gleb) - add a0 flag for the kick hypercall for future extension (Gleb) - add stubs for

This series replaces the existing paravirtualized spinlock mechanism with a paravirtualized ticketlock mechanism. The series provides implementation for both Xen and KVM. Changes in V11: - use safe_halt in lock_spinning path to avoid potential problem in case of irq_handlers taking lock in slowpath (Gleb) - add a0 flag for the kick hypercall for future extension (Gleb) - add stubs for

This series replaces the existing paravirtualized spinlock mechanism with a paravirtualized ticketlock mechanism. The series provides implementation for both Xen and KVM.(targeted for 3.5 window) Note: This needs debugfs changes patch that should be in Xen / linux-next https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/30/687 Changes in V8: - Reabsed patches to 3.4-rc4 - Combined the KVM changes with ticketlock

This series replaces the existing paravirtualized spinlock mechanism with a paravirtualized ticketlock mechanism. The series provides implementation for both Xen and KVM.(targeted for 3.5 window) Note: This needs debugfs changes patch that should be in Xen / linux-next https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/30/687 Changes in V8: - Reabsed patches to 3.4-rc4 - Combined the KVM changes with ticketlock

This series replaces the existing paravirtualized spinlock mechanism with a paravirtualized ticketlock mechanism. The series provides implementation for both Xen and KVM. The current set of patches are for Xen/x86 spinlock/KVM guest side, to be included against -tip. I 'll be sending a separate patchset for KVM host based on kvm tree. Please note I have added the below performance result

This series replaces the existing paravirtualized spinlock mechanism with a paravirtualized ticketlock mechanism. The series provides implementation for both Xen and KVM. The current set of patches are for Xen/x86 spinlock/KVM guest side, to be included against -tip. I 'll be sending a separate patchset for KVM host based on kvm tree. Please note I have added the below performance result

This series replaces the existing paravirtualized spinlock mechanism with a paravirtualized ticketlock mechanism. The series provides implementation for both Xen and KVM. The current set of patches are for Xen/x86 spinlock/KVM guest side, to be included against -tip. I 'll be sending a separate patchset for KVM host based on kvm tree. Please note I have added the below performance result

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge at citrix.com> Changes since last posting: (Raghavendra K T) [ - Rebased to linux-3.3-rc6. - used function+enum in place of macro (better type checking) - use cmpxchg while resetting zero status for possible race [suggested by Dave Hansen for KVM patches ] ] This series replaces the existing paravirtualized spinlock mechanism with a

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge at citrix.com> Changes since last posting: (Raghavendra K T) [ - Rebased to linux-3.3-rc6. - used function+enum in place of macro (better type checking) - use cmpxchg while resetting zero status for possible race [suggested by Dave Hansen for KVM patches ] ] This series replaces the existing paravirtualized spinlock mechanism with a

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge at citrix.com> This series replaces the existing paravirtualized spinlock mechanism with a paravirtualized ticketlock mechanism. (targeted for 3.5 window) Changes in V7: - Reabsed patches to 3.4-rc3 - Added jumplabel split patch (originally from Andrew Jones rebased to 3.4-rc3 - jumplabel changes from Ingo and Jason taken and now using

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge at citrix.com> This series replaces the existing paravirtualized spinlock mechanism with a paravirtualized ticketlock mechanism. (targeted for 3.5 window) Changes in V7: - Reabsed patches to 3.4-rc3 - Added jumplabel split patch (originally from Andrew Jones rebased to 3.4-rc3 - jumplabel changes from Ingo and Jason taken and now using

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge at citrix.com> Hi all, This series does two major things: 1. It converts the bulk of the implementation to C, and makes the "small ticket" and "large ticket" code common. Only the actual size-dependent asm instructions are specific to the ticket size. The resulting generated asm is very similar to the current

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge at citrix.com> Hi all, This series does two major things: 1. It converts the bulk of the implementation to C, and makes the "small ticket" and "large ticket" code common. Only the actual size-dependent asm instructions are specific to the ticket size. The resulting generated asm is very similar to the current

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge at citrix.com> Hi all, This series does two major things: 1. It converts the bulk of the implementation to C, and makes the "small ticket" and "large ticket" code common. Only the actual size-dependent asm instructions are specific to the ticket size. The resulting generated asm is very similar to the current

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge at citrix.com> Hi all, This is a revised version of the pvticket lock series. The early part of the series is mostly unchanged: it converts the bulk of the ticket lock code into C and makes the "small" and "large" ticket code common. The only changes are the incorporation of various review comments. The latter part of

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge at citrix.com> Hi all, This is a revised version of the pvticket lock series. The early part of the series is mostly unchanged: it converts the bulk of the ticket lock code into C and makes the "small" and "large" ticket code common. The only changes are the incorporation of various review comments. The latter part of

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge at citrix.com> Hi all, This is a revised version of the pvticket lock series. The early part of the series is mostly unchanged: it converts the bulk of the ticket lock code into C and makes the "small" and "large" ticket code common. The only changes are the incorporation of various review comments. The latter part of

This series replaces the existing paravirtualized spinlock mechanism with a paravirtualized ticketlock mechanism. The series provides implementation for both Xen and KVM. Changes in V9: - Changed spin_threshold to 32k to avoid excess halt exits that are causing undercommit degradation (after PLE handler improvement). - Added kvm_irq_delivery_to_apic (suggested by Gleb) - Optimized halt exit

This series replaces the existing paravirtualized spinlock mechanism with a paravirtualized ticketlock mechanism. The series provides implementation for both Xen and KVM. Changes in V9: - Changed spin_threshold to 32k to avoid excess halt exits that are causing undercommit degradation (after PLE handler improvement). - Added kvm_irq_delivery_to_apic (suggested by Gleb) - Optimized halt exit