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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch,locking: Ciao arch_mutex_cpu_relax()
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 04:57:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFx3UQG42cYrUWrTDT9CnpnRwVta6C9N_0FH1wvyDMxPgw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140625062510.GB4260@osiris>

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Heiko Carstens
<heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> 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

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-25 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-20 18:21 [PATCH] arch,locking: Ciao arch_mutex_cpu_relax() Davidlohr Bueso
2014-06-23  6:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-23  7:13   ` Vineet Gupta
2014-06-23 11:34     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-23  6:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-24 15:06   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-06-25  6:25     ` Heiko Carstens
2014-06-25 11:57       ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2014-06-29 22:09         ` [PATCH v2] " Davidlohr Bueso
2014-08-05 13:04           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-08-05 17:42             ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-08-08  1:18               ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-08-08 10:45                 ` Guenter Roeck
2014-08-15 19:34                 ` Guenter Roeck

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