Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] locking/pvqspinlock: Unconditional PV kick with _Q_SLOW_VAL

[Davidlohr Bueso]

On Mon, 2015-07-27 at 13:50 -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> As for the spurious-wakeups.txt, I saw there are spurious wakeup 
> occasionally. However, I am not totally sure of the mechanism that 
> causes it. Also the spurious wakeup here refers to the vmenter of the 
> vCPU which is different from spurious wakeup of a sleeping thread. I 
> don't think I have enough data and information to write a document file yet.

Right, this was a generic idea, not only regarding actual wakeups of
sleeping threads.

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