This patchset contains modifications to mutex. Patch 1 further reduces unnecessary atomic xchg() operations upon entering the mutex slowpath in mutex_lock().
Patch 2 corrects/updates the documentation on mutex optimistic spinning. Patch 3 optimizes mutex trylock slowpath. Jason Low (3): mutex: Try to acquire mutex only if it is unlocked mutex: Correct documentation on mutex optimistic spinning mutex: Optimize mutex trylock slowpath kernel/locking/mutex.c | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
