Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] spinlock: A new lockref structure for locklessupdate of refcount

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Aug 30 2013 - 12:52:28 EST


On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Where is this a.out file from or how to generate it?

Oh, that's just the silly threaded test-binary. I don't know what you
called it.

As to your config options, yesh, you have some expensive stuff.
DEBUG_OBJECTS and DEBUG_MUTEXES in particular tend to cause lots of
horrible performance issues. I didn't check if there might be other
things..

Linusc
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