Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Gang scheduling in CFS

[Avi Kivity]

On 12/19/2011 01:23 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> What's behind this huge speedup? Does ebizzy use user-space 
> spinlocks perhaps? Could we do something on the user-space side 
> to get a similar speedup?

kvm tries to detect spinlocks (by trapping repeated executions of PAUSE)
and yield to a related vcpu.  It's far from perfect however, and relies
on the spinlock code using PAUSE.

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