Re: [PATCH] lockref: stop doing cpu_relax in the cmpxchg loop

2023-01-13 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 3:47 PM Luck, Tony wrote: > > The computer necrophiliacs at Debian and Gentoo seem determined > to keep ia64 alive. > > So perhaps this should s/cpu_relax/soemt_relax/ where soemt_relax > is a no-op everywhere except ia64, which can define it as cpu_relax. Heh. I already t

RE: [PATCH] lockref: stop doing cpu_relax in the cmpxchg loop

2023-01-13 Thread Luck, Tony
> diff --git a/lib/lockref.c b/lib/lockref.c > index 45e93ece8ba0..2afe4c5d8919 100644 > --- a/lib/lockref.c > +++ b/lib/lockref.c > @@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ > } > \ > if (!--retry)