On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Davidlohr Bueso <d...@stgolabs.net> wrote: > On Mon, 2015-06-15 at 11:34 -0700, Jason Low wrote: >> The CCAS technique was typically used in the slow paths for those >> other locks, where the chance of the operation returning false is >> higher. > > That is true. Although I really want to use it in patch 4, I guess I > could move the check in there, and thus avoid having it in the fastpath.
I agree, that way, we only have the extra check in cases where it is beneficial, like in the optimistic spin loop. Jason -- 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/
