From f3f8408975154b914ebba0fa299f9c89dfa0f5e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Friedrich Oslage Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:13:29 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: Document Hyper-v never notify feature for spinlocks Signed-off-by: Friedrich Oslage Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik --- NEWS.rst | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst index f20d087c79..c7ef7e9eae 100644 --- a/NEWS.rst +++ b/NEWS.rst @@ -23,6 +23,15 @@ v11.9.0 (unreleased) enlightenments at domain startup into the live XML so that's obvious which enlightenments are enabled. + * Add support for Hyper-V ``spinlocks`` "never notify" mechanism + + The ``retries`` attribute - which defines after how many failed + acquisition attempts to notify the hypervisor - can now hold the + special value of 4294967295 which means to never notify the + hypervisor. + + If the ``retries`` attribute is omitted this value is used. + * **Improvements** * qemu: Improvements to USB controller model selection -- 2.47.3