linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.0-rc4

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Message-ID: <m2boxp39zz.fsf@firstfloor.org>
Date:	Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:08:00 -0700
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.0-rc4

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> writes:

> and the
> conversion from spinlocks to mutexes for the anon_vma locking ended up
> causing a scalability issue that required fixing.

FWIW it's still ~16% slower. Does that count as fixed?

-Andi

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