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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 1/8] qspinlock: Introducing a 4-byte queue spinlock implementation



On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:14:21AM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:

> +struct qnode {
> +     u32              wait;          /* Waiting flag         */
> +     struct qnode    *next;          /* Next queue node addr */
> +};
> +
> +struct qnode_set {
> +     struct qnode    nodes[MAX_QNODES];
> +     int             node_idx;       /* Current node to use */
> +};
> +
> +/*
> + * Per-CPU queue node structures
> + */
> +static DEFINE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED(struct qnode_set, qnset) = { {{0}}, 0 };

So I've not yet wrapped my head around any of this; and I see a later
patch adds some paravirt gunk to this, but it does blow you can't keep
it a single cacheline for the sane case.

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