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

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Message-ID: <56AC0F74.2040808@huawei.com>
Date:	Sat, 30 Jan 2016 09:18:44 +0800
From:	Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CC:	Waiman Long <waiman.long@....com>, Jason Low <jason.low2@...com>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@....com>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] locking/mutexes: don't spin on owner when wait list
 is not NULL.

On 2016/1/29 17:53, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 04:03:50PM +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
> 
>> looks good to me, I will try this solution and report the result, thanks everyone.
> 
> Did you get a change to run with this?
> 
> .
> 

I backport this patch to 3.10 lts kernel, and didn't change any logic, Till now, the patch works fine to me, and no need to change anything,
So I think this patch is no problem, could you formal release this patch to the latest kernel? :)

Thanks.
Ding