Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] locking/mutex: Modifications to mutex

2014-06-04 Thread Davidlohr Bueso
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 12:08 -0700, Jason Low wrote: > This patchset contains modifications to mutex. Wondering why the RFC... -- 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

[RFC PATCH 0/3] locking/mutex: Modifications to mutex

2014-06-04 Thread Jason Low
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