Re: [PATCH]lock_stat: Adding "nr_contender" and "max_contender" to show the degree of contention on ticket spinlock

[Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>]

On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 16:10 +1000, Yang Xi wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h
> index 4e77853..a2396d8 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h
> @@ -172,6 +172,15 @@ static inline int
> __ticket_spin_is_contended(raw_spinlock_t *lock)
>         return (((tmp >> TICKET_SHIFT) - tmp) & ((1 << TICKET_SHIFT) - 1)) > 1;
>  }


You patch is line wrapped .. It means it might not be easy to apply it..
You need to tell your mailer that the patch is "preformatted" . In the
kernel tree look at "Documentation/email-clients.txt" for more
information.

(btw, since your using git anyway you might want to look into using
git-format-patch and git-send-email for submitting)

Daniel