On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Andi Kleen <a...@firstfloor.org> wrote: > > FWIW unfair can be faster in some cases. It depends on the workload.
Sure. And we've never cared before. When we switched over to the ticket spinlocks, we actually had *numbers* about how the old unfair spinlocks could be faster. And we still didn't leave a "unfair spinlocks" option. Because it didn't make sense. Why would it make sense here? Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/