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On 03/20/2016 06:43 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> We still have that starvation case in mutex, I would think that is far
> more important to fix.

Peter, I am sorry that I let the mutex patch languish for a while. I 
will work on that next.

Cheers,
Longman