Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 5/5] mutex: Give spinners a chance tospin_on_owner if need_resched() triggered while queued

[Jason Low]

On Mon, 2014-02-03 at 22:06 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 12:55:34PM -0800, Jason Low wrote:
> > On Mon, 2014-02-03 at 20:25 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > XXX: anybody got a better name than m_spinlock?
> > 
> > So I was thinking something along the lines of
> > mcs_spin_lock_cancelable() as that's essentially what this function
> > does.
> 
> sure, but what do we call the data structure that goes with it? Can't
> have two struct mcs_spinlock :/

If this structure is only going to be used for cancelable mcs locking,
what do you think of "struct cancelable_mcs_spinlock"?


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