Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030251AbVLSEbi (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Dec 2005 23:31:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030255AbVLSEbi (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Dec 2005 23:31:38 -0500 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:1484 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030251AbVLSEbh (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Dec 2005 23:31:37 -0500 Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 05:31:36 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Arjan van de Ven , Alan Cox , Christoph Hellwig , David Howells , Alexander Viro , Oleg Nesterov Subject: Re: [patch 00/15] Generic Mutex Subsystem Message-ID: <20051219043136.GI23384@wotan.suse.de> References: <20051219013415.GA27658@elte.hu> <20051219042248.GG23384@wotan.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 467 Lines: 12 > Perhaps it's the smaller structures, as Ingo said, which would allow for > better cache handling. That still doesn't seem credible on a large cached x86 CPU. However if it's that then oprofile could tell I guess. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/