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Message-ID: <20160122031324.GI3818@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 21 Jan 2016 19:13:24 -0800
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
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, Jan 21, 2016 at 06:48:54PM -0800, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> 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 :)

Plus I suspected that you wanted some extra email.  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul

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