Re: 2.6.13-rc6-rt6

[Ingo Molnar]

* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Here's a patch to move the pi_lock out of the "fast path".  Thus, only 
> threads that need to do PI will need to take it.

ok, looks good, applied it. I've renamed p->rt_lock to p->pi_lock. The 
patch gave a 10% wall-clock improvement in hackbench numbers on an 8-way 
box. (This box has pretty high cachemiss costs, so the positive effects 
of such patches show up nicely.)

	Ingo
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