On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 18:45 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 09:18 -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:

quoted

And in general it looks like blind conversion from spinlock to mutex
is a bad idea right now.

For 4 socket machines, maybe. On 2 sockets I cannot reproduce anything.

I wonder if its the fairness thing, the mutex spinners aren't fifo fair
like the ticket locks are. It could be significant with larger socket
count since their cacheline arbitration is more sucky.

Peter,

Wonder if you can provide the profile on your run so I can compare with
what I got on 4 sockets?

Thanks.

Tim

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