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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v9][RFC] mutex: implement adaptive spinning
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:01:42 +0100
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* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> 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