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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/9] qspinlock stuff -v15



On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 12:25:12PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> I did it differently in my PV portion of the qspinlock patch. Instead of
> just waking up the CPU, the new lock holder will check if the new queue head
> has been halted. If so, it will set the slowpath flag for the halted queue
> head in the lock so as to wake it up at unlock time. This should eliminate
> your concern of dong twice as many VMEXIT in an overcommitted scenario.

We can still do that on top of all this right? As you might have
realized I'm a fan of gradual complexity :-)

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