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Commit 4a1ed4ca authored by Jeremy Fitzhardinge's avatar Jeremy Fitzhardinge Committed by H. Peter Anvin
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x86, pvticketlock: When paravirtualizing ticket locks, increment by 2



Increment ticket head/tails by 2 rather than 1 to leave the LSB free
to store a "is in slowpath state" bit.  This halves the number
of possible CPUs for a given ticket size, but this shouldn't matter
in practice - kernels built for 32k+ CPU systems are probably
specially built for the hardware rather than a generic distro
kernel.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1376058122-8248-9-git-send-email-raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com


Reviewed-by: default avatarKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Tested-by: default avatarAttilio Rao <attilio.rao@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRaghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
parent 354714dd
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