Re: [PATCH -v4][RFC]: mutex: implement adaptive spinning

Steven Rostedt
2009-01-07T15:30:04Z

On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > --- a/kernel/mutex.c
> > +++ b/kernel/mutex.c
> > @@ -10,6 +10,10 @@
> > * Many thanks to Arjan van de Ven, Thomas Gleixner, Steven Rostedt and
> > * David Howells for suggestions and improvements.
> > *
> > + * - Adaptive spinning for mutexes by Peter Zijlstra. (Ported to mainline
> > + * from the -rt tree, where it was originally implemented for rtmutexes
> > + * by Steven Rostedt, based on work by Gregory Haskins.)
>
> I feel guilty with my name being the only one there for the rtmutexes.
> Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar and Esben Nielsen also played large roles in
> that code.
>
> And Peter Morreale and Sven Dietrich might also be mentioned next to
> Gregory's name.
>

If you are not talking about rtmutexes in general, and are just
referencing the spinning part, then just group us all together:

Gregory Haskins, Steven Rostedt, Peter Morreale and Sven Dietrich.

Thanks,

-- Steve