[Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 0/2] gnttab: Improve scaleability

[Christoph Egger <chegger@xxxxxxxxx>]

This patch series changes the grant table locking to
a more fain grained locking protocol. The result is
a performance boost measured with blkfront/blkback.
Document the locking protocol.

Christoph Egger (1):
  gnttab: Introduce rwlock to protect updates to grant table state

Matt Wilson (1):
  gnttab: refactor locking for scalability

 docs/misc/grant-tables.txt    |   49 +++++-
 xen/arch/arm/mm.c             |    4 +-
 xen/arch/x86/mm.c             |    4 +-
 xen/common/grant_table.c      |  330 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 xen/include/xen/grant_table.h |    9 +-
 5 files changed, 265 insertions(+), 131 deletions(-)

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1.7.9.5


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