Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:48:01 -0700 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] mutex: Apply adaptive spinning on mutex_trylock() |
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote: > > Currently, mutex_trylock() doesn't use adaptive spinning. It tries > just once. I got curious whether using adaptive spinning on > mutex_trylock() would be beneficial and it seems so, at least for > btrfs anyway.
Hmm. Seems reasonable to me. The patch looks clean, although part of that is just the mutex_spin() cleanup that is independent of actually using it in trylock.
So no objections from me.
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