[PATCH v7 0/6] Implement qspinlock/pv-qspinlock on ppc

2016-09-18 Thread Pan Xinhui
Hi All, this is the fairlock patchset. You can apply them and build successfully. patches are based on 4.8-rc4. qspinlock can avoid waiter starved issue. It has about the same speed in single-thread and it can be much faster in high contention situations especially when the spinlock is

[PATCH v7 0/6] Implement qspinlock/pv-qspinlock on ppc

2016-09-18 Thread Pan Xinhui
Hi All, this is the fairlock patchset. You can apply them and build successfully. patches are based on 4.8-rc4. qspinlock can avoid waiter starved issue. It has about the same speed in single-thread and it can be much faster in high contention situations especially when the spinlock is