Re: [PATCH -v9][RFC] mutex: implement adaptive spinning

Ingo Molnar
2009-01-13T19:01:42Z

* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

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> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > below is the v8 -> v10 delta patch - for all who'd like to review the
> > changes.
>
> Hmm. This does seem to indicate that v10 lost many of the preempt
> changes. Probably because Peter went back to v7 to create it.
>
> I also wonder about the timing numbers - the numbers were probably done
> with some random version and then not re-done, so the commit message is
> not necessarily "sane" in that respect - the timings quoted don't
> necessarily match the code committed.

yeah - i didnt take care with v10's commit log because it will be redone
with a structural splitup anyway, instead of the current time based
history.

Ingo