Re: [PATCH -v7][RFC]: mutex: implement adaptive spinning

H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-09T05:16:00Z

Harvey Harrison wrote:
>
> A lot of code was written assuming inline means __always_inline, I'd suggest
> keeping that assumption and working on removing inlines that aren't
> strictly necessary as there's no way to know what inlines meant 'try to inline'
> and what ones really should have been __always_inline.
>
> Not that I feel _that_ strongly about it.
>

Actually, we have that reasonably well down by now. There seems to be a
couple of minor tweaking still necessary, but I think we're 90-95% there
already.

-hpa

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