On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:17:29AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > My main point was that we should seriously look at a ticket lock instead > of the MCS one, because while the MCS has better contention behaviour, > we shouldn't optimize locks for the worst contention. In fact, I should have just used arch_spinlock_t and assumed it is a ticket lock. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html