Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 13:54:18 -0600
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>,
       Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
       Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] __down_common: use signal_pending_state()
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On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:08:58PM +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Actually, I don't understand why __down_common/__mutex_lock_common are inlines,
> perhaps it is better to shrink .text instead.

I believe Ingo did extensive benchmarking to determine that the current
situation with mutex_lock_common is the best one.  I didn't, I assumed
that following Ingo's lead would be the best idea.

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