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avi at redhat

May 7, 2012, 6:58 AM


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Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks [In reply to]

On 05/07/2012 04:53 PM, Raghavendra K T wrote:
>> Is the improvement so low, because PLE is interfering with the patch, or
>> because PLE already does a good job?
>>
>
>
> It is because PLE already does a good job (of not burning cpu). The
> 1-3% improvement is because, patchset knows atleast who is next to hold
> lock, which is lacking in PLE.
>

Not good. Solving a problem in software that is already solved by
hardware? It's okay if there are no costs involved, but here we're
introducing a new ABI that we'll have to maintain for a long time.

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[PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks raghavendra.kt at linux May 2, 2012, 3:06 AM
    Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks mingo at kernel May 7, 2012, 1:29 AM
        Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks avi at redhat May 7, 2012, 1:32 AM
            Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks raghavendra.kt at linux May 7, 2012, 3:58 AM
                Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks avi at redhat May 7, 2012, 5:06 AM
                    Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks raghavendra.kt at linux May 7, 2012, 6:20 AM
                        Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks avi at redhat May 7, 2012, 6:22 AM
                            Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks raghavendra.kt at linux May 7, 2012, 6:38 AM
                                Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks vatsa at linux May 7, 2012, 6:46 AM
                                    Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks avi at redhat May 7, 2012, 6:49 AM
                                        Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks raghavendra.kt at linux May 7, 2012, 6:53 AM
                                            Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks avi at redhat May 7, 2012, 6:58 AM
                                                Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks raghavendra.kt at linux May 7, 2012, 7:47 AM
                                                    Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks avi at redhat May 7, 2012, 7:52 AM
                                                        Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks avi at redhat May 7, 2012, 7:54 AM
                                                        Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks mingo at kernel May 7, 2012, 10:25 AM
                                                            Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks tglx at linutronix May 7, 2012, 1:42 PM
                                                                Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks nikunj at linux May 7, 2012, 11:46 PM
                                                            Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks JBeulich at suse May 15, 2012, 4:26 AM
                                                        Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks raghavendra.kt at linux May 7, 2012, 10:25 PM
                                                        Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks raghavendra.kt at linux May 13, 2012, 11:45 AM
                                                            Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks nikunj at linux May 13, 2012, 9:57 PM
                                                                Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks raghavendra.kt at linux May 14, 2012, 2:01 AM
                                                            Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks jeremy at goop May 14, 2012, 12:38 AM
                                                                Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks raghavendra.kt at linux May 14, 2012, 1:11 AM
                                                            Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks raghavendra.kt at linux May 15, 2012, 8:19 PM
                                                                Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks raghavendra.kt at linux May 30, 2012, 4:26 AM
                                                                    Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks raghavendra.kt at linux Jun 14, 2012, 5:21 AM
                                        Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks vatsa at linux May 7, 2012, 6:55 AM
                                        Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks jeremy at goop May 7, 2012, 4:15 PM
                                            Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks raghavendra.kt at linux May 7, 2012, 6:13 PM
                                            Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks avi at redhat May 8, 2012, 2:08 AM
                                    Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks raghavendra.kt at linux May 7, 2012, 6:56 AM
                    Re: [PATCH RFC V8 0/17] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks raghavendra.kt at linux May 13, 2012, 10:59 AM

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