On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Rik van Riel <[email protected]> wrote: > Subject: x86,smp: proportional backoff for ticket spinlocks > > Simple fixed value proportional backoff for ticket spinlocks. > By pounding on the cacheline with the spin lock less often, > bus traffic is reduced. In cases of a data structure with > embedded spinlock, the lock holder has a better chance of > making progress. > > Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Looks fine to me other than the arbitrary-ness of 50 Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse <[email protected]> -- Michel "Walken" Lespinasse A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
