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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>,
	jes@trained-monkey.org, rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk,
	hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de,
	torvalds@osdl.org, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk,
	linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, mingo@elte.hu, nico@cam.org,
	oleg@tv-sign.ru, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, arjan@infradead.org
Subject: Re: PowerPC fastpaths for mutex subsystem
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 18:43:57 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060108074356.GM26499@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060107143722.25afd85d.akpm@osdl.org>

 
> Doens't this mean that the sped-up mutexes are still slower than semaphores?

Wasnt most of the x86 mutex gain a result of going from fair to unfair
operation? The current ppc64 semaphores are unfair.

Anton

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-08  7:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-04 14:41 [patch 00/21] mutex subsystem, -V14 Ingo Molnar
2006-01-04 23:45 ` Joel Schopp
2006-01-05  2:38   ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-01-05  2:51     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-05  3:21       ` Nick Piggin
2006-01-05  3:39         ` Anton Blanchard
2006-01-05 18:04           ` Jesse Barnes
2006-01-05 14:40       ` Ingo Molnar
2006-01-05 16:21         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-05 22:03           ` Ingo Molnar
2006-01-05 22:17             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-05 22:43               ` Ingo Molnar
2006-01-06  3:49                 ` Keith Owens
2006-01-06  7:34           ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-01-05 14:35   ` Ingo Molnar
2006-01-05 16:42     ` Joel Schopp
2006-01-05 22:21       ` Ingo Molnar
2006-01-05 23:06         ` Joel Schopp
2006-01-05 23:26           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-05 23:36             ` Joel Schopp
2006-01-05 23:42               ` Ingo Molnar
2006-01-06  0:29           ` Olof Johansson
2006-01-07 17:49             ` PowerPC fastpaths for mutex subsystem Joel Schopp
2006-01-07 22:37               ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-08  7:43                 ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
2006-01-08  8:00                   ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-08  8:23                     ` Anton Blanchard
2006-01-09 11:13                     ` David Howells
2006-01-08  9:48               ` Ingo Molnar
2006-01-10 22:31                 ` Joel Schopp
2006-01-10 23:09                   ` Ingo Molnar
2006-01-11 10:52                     ` Ingo Molnar
2006-01-11 17:44                     ` Joel Schopp
2006-01-08 10:43               ` Ingo Molnar

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