Re: [PATCH v8 5/6] MCS Lock: allow architectures to hook in to contended

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Hi Tim,

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 01:24:35AM +0000, Tim Chen wrote:
> From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> 
> When contended, architectures may be able to reduce the polling overhead
> in ways which aren't expressible using a simple relax() primitive.
> 
> This patch allows architectures to hook into the mcs_{lock,unlock}
> functions for the contended cases only.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Not a huge problem, but the subject for this patch seem to have been
truncated (should be "... contended paths").

Will

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