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authorAlon Levy <alevy@redhat.com>2011-04-27 18:44:29 +0300
committerAlon Levy <alevy@redhat.com>2011-07-23 00:55:03 +0300
commitc4aff2b753e80e49f88e95ea02d1ff1de21a2391 (patch)
tree4aaf57dec813083b0703f4a0a88d37704becdaef
parentee0e638e119d54fb3f9eda6de18f8fb3884d8509 (diff)
xspice/qxl_ring: yield when ring is full
-rw-r--r--src/qxl_ring.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/qxl_ring.c b/src/qxl_ring.c
index 0870ef1..02c4c35 100644
--- a/src/qxl_ring.c
+++ b/src/qxl_ring.c
@@ -75,7 +75,11 @@ qxl_ring_push (struct qxl_ring *ring,
while (header->prod - header->cons == header->num_items)
{
header->notify_on_cons = header->cons + 1;
-
+#ifdef XSPICE
+ /* in gtkperf, circles, this is a major bottleneck. Can't be that good in a vm either
+ * Adding the yield reduces cpu usage, but doesn't improve throughput. */
+ pthread_yield();
+#endif
mem_barrier();
}