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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: Linux 3.0-rc4
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> and the
> conversion from spinlocks to mutexes for the anon_vma locking ended up
> causing a scalability issue that required fixing.

FWIW it's still ~16% slower. Does that count as fixed?

-Andi

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