On 04/30/2015 03:53 AM, Juergen Gross wrote: > Paravirtualized spinlocks produce some overhead even if the kernel is > running on bare metal. The main reason are the more complex locking > and unlocking functions. Especially unlocking is no longer just one > instruction but so complex that it is no longer inlined. > > This patch series addresses this issue by adding two more pvops > functions to reduce the size of the inlined spinlock functions. When > running on bare metal unlocking is again basically one instruction.
Out of curiosity, is there a measurable difference? J -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/