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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Fix a race between rwsem and the scheduler
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On Wed, 2016-08-31 at 09:28 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> What hardware do you see this on, is it shiny new Power8 chips which
> have never before seen deep queues or something. Or is it 'regular'
> old Power7 like stuff?

Power8 which isn't *that* new these days...

Cheers,
Ben.