Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752978Ab3IILH6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Sep 2013 07:07:58 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-f181.google.com ([209.85.223.181]:63194 "EHLO mail-ie0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752450Ab3IILH4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Sep 2013 07:07:56 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1378561605-18998-5-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com> References: <1378561605-18998-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com> <1378561605-18998-5-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com> From: Ramkumar Ramachandra Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 16:37:16 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] xen/spinlock: Don't setup xen spinlock IPI kicker if disabled. To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: LKML , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, david.vrabel@citrix.com, stefan.bader@canonical.com, stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com, Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 500 Lines: 11 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > There is no need to setup this IPI kicker if we are never going > to use the paravirtualized ticketlock mechanism. Excellent patch; the important takeaway is that paravirtualization is still quite useful in the real world. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/