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

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Date:	Thu, 21 Jan 2016 18:48:54 -0800
From:	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@....com>,
	Jason Low <jason.low2@...com>, Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] locking/mutexes: don't spin on owner when wait list
 is not NULL.

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