* Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> wrote:

> Its because the mutex wasn't quite exclusive enough :-) If you let in 
> multiple 
> owner, like with that race you found, you get big gains in throughput ...

Btw., do we know which mutex that was?

That it didn't crash with a full AIM run suggests that whatever it is 
protecting 
it could probably be parallelized some more while still having a mostly working 
kernel! ;-)

Thanks,

        Ingo

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