similar to: [PATCH 0/6] x86: reduce paravirtualized spinlock overhead

Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. As explained by Linus currently it does: prev = *lock; add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); /* add_smp() is a full mb() */ if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) __ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev); which

Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. As explained by Linus currently it does: prev = *lock; add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); /* add_smp() is a full mb() */ if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) __ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev); which

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

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

Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. As explained by Linus currently it does: prev = *lock; add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); /* add_smp() is a full mb() */ if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) __ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev); which is

Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. As explained by Linus currently it does: prev = *lock; add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); /* add_smp() is a full mb() */ if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) __ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev); which is

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

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

This series replaces the existing paravirtualized spinlock mechanism with a paravirtualized ticketlock mechanism. The series provides implementation for both Xen and KVM. Changes in V10: Addressed Konrad's review comments: - Added break in patch 5 since now we know exact cpu to wakeup - Dropped patch 12 and Konrad needs to revert two patches to enable xen on hvm 70dd4998, f10cd522c -

This series replaces the existing paravirtualized spinlock mechanism with a paravirtualized ticketlock mechanism. The series provides implementation for both Xen and KVM. Changes in V10: Addressed Konrad's review comments: - Added break in patch 5 since now we know exact cpu to wakeup - Dropped patch 12 and Konrad needs to revert two patches to enable xen on hvm 70dd4998, f10cd522c -

This series replaces the existing paravirtualized spinlock mechanism with a paravirtualized ticketlock mechanism. The series provides implementation for both Xen and KVM. Changes in V10: Addressed Konrad's review comments: - Added break in patch 5 since now we know exact cpu to wakeup - Dropped patch 12 and Konrad needs to revert two patches to enable xen on hvm 70dd4998, f10cd522c -

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