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From: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
To: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: mingo@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com,
	peter@hurleysoftware.com, riel@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
	walken@google.com, Waiman.Long@hp.com, aswin@hp.com,
	scott.norton@hp.com, chegu_vinod@hp.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] locking/mutex: Correct documentation on mutex optimistic spinning
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 13:30:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1401913857.2232.6.camel@j-VirtualBox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1401912696.13877.5.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net>

On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 13:11 -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 12:08 -0700, Jason Low wrote:
> > The mutex optimistic spinning documentation states that we spin for
> > acquisition when we find that there are no pending waiters. However,
> > in actuality, whether or not there are waiters for the mutex doesn't
> > determine if we will spin for it.
> > 
> > This patch removes that statement and also adds a comment which
> > mentions that we spin for the mutex while we don't need to reschedule.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
> 
> I think this could go in with v4 of the mutex doc rewrite patch...
> guessing for 3.17 now.

Yeah, this patch could be for 3.17.

Thanks,
Jason


  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-04 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-04 19:08 [RFC PATCH 0/3] locking/mutex: Modifications to mutex Jason Low
2014-06-04 19:08 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] locking/mutex: Try to acquire mutex only if it is unlocked Jason Low
2014-06-04 19:43   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-04 20:57     ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-06-04 20:58       ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-06-09 17:38         ` Jason Low
2014-06-11 21:00           ` Long, Wai Man
2014-06-11 21:48             ` Jason Low
2014-06-12  1:25               ` Long, Wai Man
2014-06-04 21:53       ` Jason Low
2014-06-04 21:26     ` Jason Low
2014-06-04 21:54       ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-06-04 22:13         ` Jason Low
2014-06-05  3:24       ` Waiman Long
2014-06-05 19:21         ` Jason Low
2014-06-04 19:08 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] locking/mutex: Correct documentation on mutex optimistic spinning Jason Low
2014-06-04 20:11   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-06-04 20:30     ` Jason Low [this message]
2014-06-04 19:08 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] locking/mutex: Optimize mutex trylock slowpath Jason Low
2014-06-04 20:28   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-06-04 21:47     ` Jason Low
2014-06-05  1:10       ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-06-05  3:08         ` Jason Low
2014-06-04 20:13 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] locking/mutex: Modifications to mutex Davidlohr Bueso

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