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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 13/14] x86/ticketlock: add slowpath logic
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"Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> |
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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 13/14] x86/ticketlock: add slowpath logic |
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"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:52:21 +0000 |
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>, Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, vatsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Eric Dumazet <dada1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, suzuki@xxxxxxxxxx, Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>, xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx, Linux Virtualization <virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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>>> On 19.01.11 at 19:55, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 01/19/2011 10:39 AM, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
>> I have tested quite extensively with booting a 16-vcpu guest (on a 16-pcpu
> host)
>> and running kernel compine (with 32-threads). Without this patch, I had
>> difficulty booting/shutting-down successfully (it would hang mid-way).
>
> Sounds good. But I like to test with "make -j 100-200" to really give
> things a workout.
Hmm, in my experience, heavily over-committing CPUs (e.g. a
domain with double or more the vCPU-s that the system has
pCPU-s, or the pCPU-s the domain is allowed to run on) is a
much better test for eventual problems in the spin lock code
paths.
Jan
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