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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] locking/mutex: Rewrite basic mutex
To: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
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On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> wrote:
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>> 46 files changed, 160 insertions(+), 1298 deletions(-)
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> Oh my.

Yeah, that looks like a pretty compelling argument right there, if
there isn't any other really major downside to this...

Peter, is there some downside that isn't obvious? Like "Well, this
does regress performance because it now always does X"?

             Linus