Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757227AbZAMTC0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:02:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752672AbZAMTCN (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:02:13 -0500 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:38913 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752292AbZAMTCM (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:02:12 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:01:42 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra , "Paul E. McKenney" , Gregory Haskins , Matthew Wilcox , Andi Kleen , Chris Mason , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-fsdevel , linux-btrfs , Thomas Gleixner , Nick Piggin , Peter Morreale , Sven Dietrich , Dmitry Adamushko Subject: Re: [PATCH -v9][RFC] mutex: implement adaptive spinning Message-ID: <20090113190142.GA2508@elte.hu> References: <1231774622.4371.96.camel@laptop> <1231859742.442.128.camel@twins> <1231863710.7141.3.camel@twins> <1231864854.7141.8.camel@twins> <1231867314.7141.16.camel@twins> <20090113183310.GA10065@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1002 Lines: 28 * Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > below is the v8 -> v10 delta patch - for all who'd like to review the > > changes. > > Hmm. This does seem to indicate that v10 lost many of the preempt > changes. Probably because Peter went back to v7 to create it. > > I also wonder about the timing numbers - the numbers were probably done > with some random version and then not re-done, so the commit message is > not necessarily "sane" in that respect - the timings quoted don't > necessarily match the code committed. yeah - i didnt take care with v10's commit log because it will be redone with a structural splitup anyway, instead of the current time based history. Ingo -- 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/