Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/8] mm: handle_speculative_fault()

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 10:25 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The readers are all hitting the 
> lock (and you can try to solve the O(n*2) issue with back-off, but quite 
> frankly, anybody who does that has basically already lost 

/me sneaks in a reference to local spinning spinlocks just to have them
mentioned.

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