* Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > There's no time or spin-rate based heuristics in this at all (i.e. these > > mutexes are not 'adaptive' at all!), > > FYI: The original "adaptive" name was chosen in the -rt implementation > to reflect that the locks can adaptively spin or sleep, depending on > conditions. I realize this is in contrast to the typical usage of the > term when it is in reference to the spin-time being based on some > empirical heuristics, etc as you mentioned. Sorry for the confusion. the current version of the -rt spinny-mutexes bits were mostly written by Steve, right? Historically it all started out with a more classic "adaptive mutexes" patchset so the name stuck i guess. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
