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From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] smt nice introduces significant lock contention
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 13:23:43 +1000
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On Friday 02 June 2006 13:04, Con Kolivas wrote:
> Sure, you have the hack lock. Actually we can just trylock and if it fails
> remove it from the sibling_map and go to out_unlock without a separate
> trylock_smt_cpus function entirely...

I mean go to out_unlock if the sibling_map is empty sorry.

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