linux-kernel - Re: spinlock which can morph into a mutex

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Message-ID: <1261150994.20899.303.camel@laptop>
Date:	Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:43:14 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@...tron.nl>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: spinlock which can morph into a mutex

On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 15:30 +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:

> I just convert the spinlocks to mutexes with minimal extra overhead ?

Yep.

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