Re: [PATCH] arch,locking: Ciao arch_mutex_cpu_relax()

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Jun 25 2014 - 07:57:52 EST


On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Heiko Carstens
<heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Maybe cpu_relax_spin() ? However that doesn't sound much better as well.

"cpu_relax_lowlatency()", perhaps? Naming it for what the use is
("relax, but only if you can do it with very low latency")

Linus
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