Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:55:33 +0200 | From | Christian Borntraeger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] kvm: Improving directed yield in PLE handler |
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On 11/07/12 13:51, Raghavendra K T wrote: >>>> Almost all s390 kernels use diag9c (directed yield to a given guest cpu) for spinlocks, though. >>> >>> Perhaps x86 should copy this. >> >> See arch/s390/lib/spinlock.c >> The basic idea is using several heuristics: >> - loop for a given amount of loops >> - check if the lock holder is currently scheduled by the hypervisor >> (smp_vcpu_scheduled, which uses the sigp sense running instruction) >> Dont know if such thing is available for x86. It must be a lot cheaper >> than a guest exit to be useful > > Unfortunately we do not have information on lock-holder.
That would be an independent patch and requires guest changes.
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