Re: [PATCH v8 00/74] per-CPU locks

[Alex Bennée]

Robert Foley <address@hidden> writes:

> V7: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-03/msg00786.html
>
> This is a continuation of the series created by Emilio Cota.
> We are picking up this patch set with the goal to apply 
> any fixes or updates needed to get this accepted.
>
> Quoting an earlier patch in the series:
> "For context, the goal of this series is to substitute the BQL for the
> per-CPU locks in many places, notably the execution loop in cpus.c.
> This leads to better scalability for MTTCG, since CPUs don't have
> to acquire a contended global lock (the BQL) every time they
> stop executing code.
> See the last commit for some performance numbers."

Aside from some minor comments I think this series is pretty good to go
and would favour an early merging so we get plenty of time to shake out
any bugs.

I've been hammering this with my looped build test and everything seems
pretty stable. So for me have a:

Tested-by: Alex Bennée <address@hidden>

for the series.

-- 
Alex Bennée