Re: [PATCH][RFC]: mutex: adaptive spin

Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-06T15:01:08Z

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 01:21:41PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > It's hard to tell how it would impact inbetween workloads - i guess it
> > needs to be measured on a couple of workloads.
>
> Matthew volunteered to run something IIRC.

I've sent it off to two different teams at Intel for benchmarking. One
is a database load, and one is a mixed load.

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