Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755287AbcCTKne (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Mar 2016 06:43:34 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:34991 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754117AbcCTKn3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Mar 2016 06:43:29 -0400 Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 11:43:26 +0100 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Waiman Long Cc: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Scott J Norton , Douglas Hatch Subject: Re: [PATCH] locking/qrwlock: Allow multiple spinning readers Message-ID: <20160320104326.GM6344@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <1458444079-59601-1-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hpe.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1458444079-59601-1-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hpe.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2012-12-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 95 Lines: 3 We still have that starvation case in mutex, I would think that is far more important to fix.