Linux Plumbers Conf 2010

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Abstract

Ticket spinlocks have some very nice properties – in particular guaranteed FIFO ordering in the face of hardware cache-coherency protocol madness.

But those very properties have a dark side in virtual environments, and some kind of paravirtualization is a must.

Tags

Virtualization, kernel, spinlocks, paravirtualization

Speaker

• Jeremy Fitzhardinge

  Biography

  I’ve been hacking on Linux since pre-1.0 and Xen for the last couple of years.