On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 19:33 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > Full series, including changelogs available at:
> > 
> >  http://programming.kicks-ass.net/kernel-patches/mutex-adaptive-spin/
> > 
> > and should shortly appear in a git tree near Ingo :-)
> 
> Linus,
> 
> Please pull the adaptive-mutexes-for-linus git tree from:
> 
>    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git 
> adaptive-mutexes-for-linus
> 

I was going to put this into the btrfs tree, but since you have a branch
just for adaptive mutexes, is it easier to put there?

From: Chris Mason <chris.ma...@oracle.com>

Btrfs: stop spinning on mutex_trylock and let the adaptive code spin for us

Mutexes now spin internally and the btrfs spin is no longer required for
performance.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.ma...@oracle.com>

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/locking.c b/fs/btrfs/locking.c
index 39bae77..40ba8e8 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/locking.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/locking.c
@@ -37,16 +37,6 @@
 
 int btrfs_tree_lock(struct extent_buffer *eb)
 {
-       int i;
-
-       if (mutex_trylock(&eb->mutex))
-               return 0;
-       for (i = 0; i < 512; i++) {
-               cpu_relax();
-               if (mutex_trylock(&eb->mutex))
-                       return 0;
-       }
-       cpu_relax();
        mutex_lock_nested(&eb->mutex, BTRFS_MAX_LEVEL - btrfs_header_level(eb));
        return 0;
 }


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