Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation

[Andi Kleen]

> * mutex use is a candidate for a "spinaphore" treatment (unlike counting
> semaphores)

I think that would be interesting experiment for page faults.
But they actually use rwsems, not normal semaphores.

-Andi
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