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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 4/4] qrwlock: Use the mcs_spinlock helper functions
 for MCS queuing
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 09:26:17 +0100
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On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:28:51PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> There is a pending MCS lock patch series that adds generic MCS lock
> helper functions to do MCS-style locking. This patch will enable
> the queue rwlock to use that generic MCS lock/unlock primitives for
> internal queuing. This patch should only be merged after the merging
> of that generic MCS locking patch.

I would still very much like this patch to be merged into the first. It
saves having to review all the code removed again.