On Wed, 2017-02-01 at 09:05 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Hi all > > Is anybody working on adding QUEUED spinlocks to powerpc 64bit ? > > I've seen past attempts with ticket spinlocks > ( https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/449381/ and other related links > ) > > But it looks ticket spinlocks are a thing of the past.
Yes, we have a tentative implementation of qspinlock and pv variants: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/703139/ https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/703140/ https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/703141/ https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/703142/ https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/703143/ https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/703144/ Michael, what's the status with getting that merged ? Cheers, Ben.