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SubjectRe: [PATCH] break_lock forever broken
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
>
>
>>as I said, since the cacheline just got dirtied, the write is just
>>half a cycle which is so much in the noise that it really doesn't
>>matter.
>
>
> ok - the patch below is a small modification of Hugh's so that we clear
> ->break_lock unconditionally. Since this code is not inlined it ought to
> have minimal icache impact too.
>

Fine by me.


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