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[PATCH v10 12/19] unfair qspinlock: Variable frequency lock stealing mechanism
2014 May 07
0
[PATCH v10 12/19] unfair qspinlock: Variable frequency lock stealing mechanism
In order to fully resolve the lock waiter preemption problem in virtual guests, it is necessary to enable lock stealing in the lock waiters. A simple test-and-set lock, however, has 2 main problems: 1) The constant spinning on the lock word put a lot of cacheline contention traffic on the affected cacheline, thus slowing tasks that need to access the cacheline. 2) Lock starvation is a
[PATCH v9 00/19] qspinlock: a 4-byte queue spinlock with PV support
2014 Apr 17
33
[PATCH v9 00/19] qspinlock: a 4-byte queue spinlock with PV support
v8->v9: - Integrate PeterZ's version of the queue spinlock patch with some modification: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140310154236.038181843 at infradead.org - Break the more complex patches into smaller ones to ease review effort. - Fix a racing condition in the PV qspinlock code. v7->v8: - Remove one unneeded atomic operation from the slowpath, thus improving
[PATCH v9 00/19] qspinlock: a 4-byte queue spinlock with PV support
2014 Apr 17
33
[PATCH v9 00/19] qspinlock: a 4-byte queue spinlock with PV support
v8->v9: - Integrate PeterZ's version of the queue spinlock patch with some modification: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140310154236.038181843 at infradead.org - Break the more complex patches into smaller ones to ease review effort. - Fix a racing condition in the PV qspinlock code. v7->v8: - Remove one unneeded atomic operation from the slowpath, thus improving
[PATCH v10 00/19] qspinlock: a 4-byte queue spinlock with PV support
2014 May 07
32
[PATCH v10 00/19] qspinlock: a 4-byte queue spinlock with PV support
v9->v10: - Make some minor changes to qspinlock.c to accommodate review feedback. - Change author to PeterZ for 2 of the patches. - Include Raghavendra KT's test results in patch 18. v8->v9: - Integrate PeterZ's version of the queue spinlock patch with some modification: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140310154236.038181843 at infradead.org - Break the more complex
[PATCH v10 00/19] qspinlock: a 4-byte queue spinlock with PV support
2014 May 07
32
[PATCH v10 00/19] qspinlock: a 4-byte queue spinlock with PV support
v9->v10: - Make some minor changes to qspinlock.c to accommodate review feedback. - Change author to PeterZ for 2 of the patches. - Include Raghavendra KT's test results in patch 18. v8->v9: - Integrate PeterZ's version of the queue spinlock patch with some modification: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140310154236.038181843 at infradead.org - Break the more complex
[PATCH v10 08/19] qspinlock: Make a new qnode structure to support virtualization
2014 May 10
1
[PATCH v10 08/19] qspinlock: Make a new qnode structure to support virtualization
On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 09:08:56PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote: > On 05/08/2014 03:04 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > >On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 11:01:36AM -0400, Waiman Long wrote: > >> /* > >>+ * To have additional features for better virtualization support, it is > >>+ * necessary to store additional data in the queue node structure. So > >>+ * a new queue
[PATCH v10 08/19] qspinlock: Make a new qnode structure to support virtualization
2014 May 10
1
[PATCH v10 08/19] qspinlock: Make a new qnode structure to support virtualization
On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 09:08:56PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote: > On 05/08/2014 03:04 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > >On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 11:01:36AM -0400, Waiman Long wrote: > >> /* > >>+ * To have additional features for better virtualization support, it is > >>+ * necessary to store additional data in the queue node structure. So > >>+ * a new queue