On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:17:29AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> My main point was that we should seriously look at a ticket lock instead
> of the MCS one, because while the MCS has better contention behaviour,
> we shouldn't optimize locks for the worst contention.

In fact, I should have just used arch_spinlock_t and assumed it is a
ticket lock.
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