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x86/locking/kconfig: Update paravirt spinlock Kconfig description
authorRaghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mon, 21 Oct 2013 16:05:08 +0000 (21:35 +0530)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Sat, 26 Oct 2013 10:23:22 +0000 (12:23 +0200)
commit4c4e4f61368164f326fe59e2156c70d7faa72c17
tree3507a3abdf0622bb04503f07941b52d2088a3bd6
parent1232e3807f597748d437ab8680873af21fa81da9
x86/locking/kconfig: Update paravirt spinlock Kconfig description

Since the paravirt spinlock optimizations went into the v3.12 kernel
we have a very good performance benefit for paravirtualized KVM / Xen
kernels. Also we no longer suffer from 5% side effect on native
kernel that is mentioned in the Kconfig entry.

So update the Kconfig entry accordingly.

pvspinlock benefit on KVM link:

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/6/178

Attilio's tests on native kernel impact:

  http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2012/05/11/benchmarking-the-new-pv-ticketlock-implementation/

Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Cc: <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382371508-3843-1-git-send-email-raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/Kconfig