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From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC]: mutex: adaptive spin
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:23:43 -0500
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On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 12:40 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Subject: mutex: adaptive spin
> From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Date: Tue Jan 06 12:32:12 CET 2009
> 
> Based on the code in -rt, provide adaptive spins on generic mutexes.

I already sent Peter details, but the patch has problems without mutex
debugging turned on.  So it isn't quite ready for benchmarking yet.

-chris