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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH]Further release shadow lock overhead

To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH]Further release shadow lock overhead
From: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:59:39 +0000
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At 23:26 +0800 on 22 Jan (1201044364), Tian, Kevin wrote:
> At this time, it's natural to ask how about just releasing the lock before
> the point updating guest entry.

If you mean taking the lock just before the memcpy()/cmpxchg(), it
sounds plausible. 

Cheers,

Tim.

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