On 07/26/2010 09:15 AM, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
Paravirtual spinlock implementation for KVM guests, based heavily on Xen guest's
spinlock implementation.

+static void kvm_spin_unlock(struct arch_spinlock *lock)
+{
+       struct kvm_spinlock *sl = (struct kvm_spinlock *)lock;
+
+       ADD_STATS(released, 1);
+
+       smp_wmb();              /* make sure no writes get moved after unlock */
+       sl->lock = 0;                /* release lock */
+}

Wait, no wakeup?

So it is a yield, not a sleep. I'm worried it could seriously impact fairness when one non-contending guest (or non-pv) is overcommitted together with a spin-yield guest.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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