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Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch,locking: Ciao arch_mutex_cpu_relax()
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On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Heiko Carstens
<heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> wrote:
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> Maybe cpu_relax_spin() ? However that doesn't sound much better as well.

"cpu_relax_lowlatency()", perhaps? Naming it for what the use is
("relax, but only if you can do it with very low latency")

             Linus