On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 13:11 -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 12:08 -0700, Jason Low wrote: > > The mutex optimistic spinning documentation states that we spin for > > acquisition when we find that there are no pending waiters. However, > > in actuality, whether or not there are waiters for the mutex doesn't > > determine if we will spin for it. > > > > This patch removes that statement and also adds a comment which > > mentions that we spin for the mutex while we don't need to reschedule. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.l...@hp.com> > > Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidl...@hp.com> > > I think this could go in with v4 of the mutex doc rewrite patch... > guessing for 3.17 now.
Yeah, this patch could be for 3.17. Thanks, Jason -- 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/
