Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:16:43 +0100 | | From | Ingo Molnar <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC]: mutex: adaptive spin |
| |
* Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote: > > There's no time or spin-rate based heuristics in this at all (i.e. these > > mutexes are not 'adaptive' at all!), > > FYI: The original "adaptive" name was chosen in the -rt implementation > to reflect that the locks can adaptively spin or sleep, depending on > conditions. I realize this is in contrast to the typical usage of the > term when it is in reference to the spin-time being based on some > empirical heuristics, etc as you mentioned. Sorry for the confusion.
the current version of the -rt spinny-mutexes bits were mostly written by Steve, right? Historically it all started out with a more classic "adaptive mutexes" patchset so the name stuck i guess.
Ingo
|  |