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To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/28] mm: preemptibility -v3
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
References: <20100607110654.606530953@chello.nl>
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:36:08 +0200
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Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> writes:

> This patch-set makes part of the mm a lot more preemptible. It converts
> i_mmap_lock and anon_vma->lock to mutexes and makes mmu_gather fully
> preemptible.

How about performance measurements?   mutexes still behave quite
differently from spinlocks, especially under contention.

-Andi

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