Re: [PATCH 00/28] mm: preemptibility -v3

[Andi Kleen]

Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> 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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