Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 10:29:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
       Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
       Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
       linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>,
       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
       Peter Morreale <pmorreale@novell.com>,
       Sven Dietrich <SDietrich@novell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v4][RFC]: mutex: implement adaptive spinning
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On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > --- a/kernel/mutex.c
> > +++ b/kernel/mutex.c
> > @@ -10,6 +10,10 @@
> >   * Many thanks to Arjan van de Ven, Thomas Gleixner, Steven Rostedt and
> >   * David Howells for suggestions and improvements.
> >   *
> > + *  - Adaptive spinning for mutexes by Peter Zijlstra. (Ported to mainline
> > + *    from the -rt tree, where it was originally implemented for rtmutexes
> > + *    by Steven Rostedt, based on work by Gregory Haskins.)
> 
> I feel guilty with my name being the only one there for the rtmutexes.
> Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar and Esben Nielsen also played large roles in
> that code.
> 
> And Peter Morreale and Sven Dietrich might also be mentioned next to
> Gregory's name.
> 

If you are not talking about rtmutexes in general, and are just 
referencing the spinning part, then just group us all together:

  Gregory Haskins, Steven Rostedt, Peter Morreale and Sven Dietrich.

Thanks,

-- Steve

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