Re: [PATCH RFC] locking/mutexes: don't spin on owner when wait list is not NULL.

From: Davidlohr Bueso
Date: Thu Jan 21 2016 - 21:49:18 EST


On Thu, 21 Jan 2016, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

I did some testing, which exposed it to the 0day test robot, which
did note some performance differences. I was hoping that it would
clear up some instability from other patches, but no such luck. ;-)

Oh, that explains why we got a performance regression report :)

Thanks,
Davidlohr