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    SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] locking/mutex: Rewrite basic mutex
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    On Tue, 2016-08-23 at 09:17 -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
    > What's the motivation here? Is it just to unify counter and owner for
    > the starvation issue? If so, is this really the path we wanna take for
    > a small debug corner case?

    And we thought our other patch was a bit invasive :-)

    > I have not looked at the patches yet, but are there any performance minutia
    > to be aware of?

    This would remove all of the mutex architecture specific optimizations
    in the (common) fastpath, so that is one thing that could reduce
    performance. I'll run some benchmarks to see what some of the
    performance impacts of these patches would be.

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