On 02/12/14 10:06, Christoph Egger wrote: > This patch series changes the grant table locking to > a more fain grained locking protocol. The result is > a performance boost measured with blkfront/blkback. > Document the locking protocol. > > [PATCH 1/2] gnttab: Introduce rwlock to protect updates to grant > [PATCH 2/2] gnttab: refactor locking for scalability
XenServer has been using the original version of this patch (forward ported a little), and it makes significant improvements to our scalability. I highly recommend this for inclusion, although for 4.6 at this point. ~Andrew _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
