Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752253AbZLRPnm (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:43:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751346AbZLRPnl (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:43:41 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:43599 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751050AbZLRPnk (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:43:40 -0500 Subject: Re: spinlock which can morph into a mutex From: Peter Zijlstra To: Miquel van Smoorenburg Cc: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20091218143032.GA16595@xs4all.net> References: <20091218143032.GA16595@xs4all.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:43:14 +0100 Message-ID: <1261150994.20899.303.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 390 Lines: 11 On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 15:30 +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > I just convert the spinlocks to mutexes with minimal extra overhead ? Yep. -- 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/