* 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