Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCHv3 0/4] Use ticket locks for spinlocks

2015-05-04 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 30.04.15 at 17:44, wrote: > On 23/04/15 13:42, David Vrabel wrote: >> On 21/04/15 11:22, Jan Beulich wrote: >> On 21.04.15 at 12:11, wrote: We have analysed the affect of this series on interrupt latency (by measuring the duration of irq disable/enable regions) and there is n

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCHv3 0/4] Use ticket locks for spinlocks

2015-04-30 Thread David Vrabel
On 23/04/15 13:42, David Vrabel wrote: > On 21/04/15 11:22, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 21.04.15 at 12:11, wrote: >>> We have analysed the affect of this series on interrupt latency (by >>> measuring the duration of irq disable/enable regions) and there is no >>> signficant impact. >>> >>> http://

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCHv3 0/4] Use ticket locks for spinlocks

2015-04-23 Thread David Vrabel
On 21/04/15 11:22, Jan Beulich wrote: On 21.04.15 at 12:11, wrote: >> We have analysed the affect of this series on interrupt latency (by >> measuring the duration of irq disable/enable regions) and there is no >> signficant impact. >> >> http://xenbits.xen.org/people/dvrabel/bar2_comp.png >

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCHv3 0/4] Use ticket locks for spinlocks

2015-04-21 Thread Jennifer Herbert
On 21/04/15 11:22, Jan Beulich wrote: Despite both pictures saying micro-seconds at the respective axis (and hence the problem not being _as bad_) - did the data collection reveal where these IRQ disable regions are, so we could look into eliminating them? (ISTR there being some open coded IRQ

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCHv3 0/4] Use ticket locks for spinlocks

2015-04-21 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 21.04.15 at 12:11, wrote: > We have analysed the affect of this series on interrupt latency (by > measuring the duration of irq disable/enable regions) and there is no > signficant impact. > > http://xenbits.xen.org/people/dvrabel/bar2_comp.png Thanks for doing this! > Interestingly, th