linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] locking/mutex: Rewrite basic mutex

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Message-ID: <20160827182742.GA8248@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 27 Aug 2016 20:27:42 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Waiman Long <waiman.long@....com>, Jason Low <jason.low2@....com>,
        Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@....com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Imre Deak <imre.deak@...el.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ibm.com>, jason.low2@...com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] locking/mutex: Rewrite basic mutex


* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:

> Its because the mutex wasn't quite exclusive enough :-) If you let in multiple 
> owner, like with that race you found, you get big gains in throughput ...

Btw., do we know which mutex that was?

That it didn't crash with a full AIM run suggests that whatever it is protecting 
it could probably be parallelized some more while still having a mostly working 
kernel! ;-)

Thanks,

	Ingo