Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:28:27 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] qspinlock: Introducing a 4-byte queue spinlock
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On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 02:30:12PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> I will start looking at how to make it work with paravirt. Hopefully, it
> won't take too long.

The cheap way out is to simply switch to the test-and-set spinlock on
whatever X86_FEATURE_ indicates a guest I suppose.
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