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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: gcc inlining heuristics was Re: [PATCH -v7][RFC]: mutex: implement
 adaptive spinning
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:20:23 -0800
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Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
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To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> Weird. I wonder where this strange restriction comes from. It indeed
> makes this much less useful than it could be :/
> 

Most likely they're collapsing at too early of a stage.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.