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Re: [Xen-devel] Linux v3.12 + pv ticketlocks.



On lun, 2013-09-09 at 10:03 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 11:39:52AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
>
> > Congrats!
> 
Huge to everyone that has been involved in it congrats from me too! :-)

> Thank you. Albeit most of the credit goes to folks you and me mentioned
> and as well Raghavendra K T for tirelessly picking it up and
> upstreaming it.
> 
> > 
> > > Majority of that work was done by Jeremy Fitzhardinge and I would like
> > > to thank him for doing this work. It had taken a year (or more) to 
> > > actually
> > 
>
> > 
> > BTW Attilio Rao did some upstreaming work and a bunch of measurement
> > stuff too.
> 
> And a nice Wiki entry:
> 
> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Benchmarking_the_new_PV_ticketlock_implementation
> 
> and an awesome blog entry:
> http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2012/05/11/benchmarking-the-new-pv-ticketlock-implementation/
> 
Indeed. Still, the fact that the code finally hit upstream, certainly
calls for another blog post! :-)

For example, it would be nice to make an announcement that this is now
upstreamed and also, if I understood your patches correctly, available
for all the virtualization modes we support!

Anyone up for it?

Dario

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Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK)

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