Message-ID: <1428523835.3506.11.camel@j-VirtualBox>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] locking: Simplify mutex and rwsem spinning code
From: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
To: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
        Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, jason.low2@hp.com
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 13:10:35 -0700
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On Wed, 2015-04-08 at 12:49 -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-04-08 at 12:39 -0700, Jason Low wrote:
> > This patchset applies on top of tip.
> > 
> > Jason Low (2):
> >   locking/mutex: Further refactor mutex_spin_on_owner()
> >   locking/rwsem: Use a return variable in rwsem_spin_on_owner()
> > 
> >  kernel/locking/mutex.c      |   14 ++++----------
> >  kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c |   25 ++++++++++++-------------
> >  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
> 
> Meh. Personally I wouldn't mid leaving these files alone for a change,
> the code is already pretty readable imho. Of course its a matter of
> taste, so I won't argue.

I agree that it's quite readable now too, though Peter and Ingo seems
like they would prefer these changes :)

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/7/46
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/16/102


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