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    SubjectRe: [patch] increase spinlock-debug looping timeouts (write_lock and NMI)

    * Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

    > Otherwise, a straight rwlock->spinlock conversion will have a few more
    > scalability issues, but I'd guess it wouldn't be a problem at all for
    > most workloads on most systems.

    curious, do you have any (relatively-) simple to run testcase that
    clearly shows the "scalability issues" you mention above, when going
    from rwlocks to spinlocks? I'd like to give it a try on an 8-way box.

    Ingo
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