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locking/Documentation: Update locking/mutex-design.txt disadvantages
authorDavidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Wed, 30 Jul 2014 20:41:56 +0000 (13:41 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:32:04 +0000 (10:32 +0200)
commit0a7cbf9abe3198461de3d3e97268db32a646ba06
tree0e071f305840ba9aff93d16981963fa0cbcf09ba
parent214e0aed639ef40987bf6159fad303171a6de31e
locking/Documentation: Update locking/mutex-design.txt disadvantages

Fortunately Jason was able to reduce some of the overhead we
had introduced in the original rwsem optimistic spinning -
an it is now the same size as mutexes. Update the documentation
accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Acked-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: aswin@hp.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406752916-3341-7-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Documentation/locking/mutex-design.txt