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Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 09:17:50 -0700
From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] locking/mutex: Rewrite basic mutex
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What's the motivation here? Is it just to unify counter and owner for
the starvation issue? If so, is this really the path we wanna take for
a small debug corner case?

I have not looked at the patches yet, but are there any performance minutia
to be aware of?

> 46 files changed, 160 insertions(+), 1298 deletions(-)

Oh my.

Thanks,
Davidlohr