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

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 07:41:04PM +0200, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> 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! :-)

Ha!
> 
> 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!

We still got two months to do it - as it is just now in v3.12-rc0
stage.
> 
> Anyone up for it?
> 
> Dario
> 
> -- 
> <<This happens because I choose it to happen!>> (Raistlin Majere)
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Dario Faggioli, Ph.D, http://about.me/dario.faggioli
> Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK)
> 



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