Re: [PATCH -v5][RFC]: mutex: implement adaptive spinning

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> True. I need to keep looking at the code that is posted. In -rt, we force 
> the fast path into the slowpath as soon as another task fails to get the 
> lock. Without that, as you pointed out, the code can be racy.

I mean we force the fast unlock path into the slow path as soon as another 
task fails to get the lock.

-- Steve

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