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SubjectRe: [PATCH v8 00/10] qspinlock: a 4-byte queue spinlock with PV support
On 04/02/2014 10:32 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 09:27:29AM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
>> N.B. Sorry for the duplicate. This patch series were resent as the
>> original one was rejected by the vger.kernel.org list server
>> due to long header. There is no change in content.
>>
>> v7->v8:
>> - Remove one unneeded atomic operation from the slowpath, thus
>> improving performance.
>> - Simplify some of the codes and add more comments.
>> - Test for X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR CPU feature bit to enable/disable
>> unfair lock.
>> - Reduce unfair lock slowpath lock stealing frequency depending
>> on its distance from the queue head.
>> - Add performance data for IvyBridge-EX CPU.
> FYI, your v7 patch with 32 VCPUs (on a 32 cpu socket machine) on an
> HVM guest under Xen after a while stops working. The workload
> is doing 'make -j32' on the Linux kernel.
>
> Completely unresponsive. Thoughts?
>

Thank for reporting that. I haven't done that much testing on Xen. My
focus was in KVM. I will perform more test on Xen to see if I can
reproduce the problem.

-Longman


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