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xen-devel
Re: spinlock requests (was RE: [Xen-devel] [Patch] don't spin with irq d
Keir Fraser wrote:
I suspect the existing uses of rwlock in Xen actually are because that
seemed a natural fit for the code -- obvious split between reader and writer
critical sections -- rather than because of excessive serialisation if using
a normal spinlock. I strongly disbelieve that lock acquire/release is a
significant performance bottleneck for us right now.
Aren't rwlocks sufficiently less efficient than spinlocks that you'd
tend to use the latter if you don't think contention is an issue?
J
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