From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761728AbXEJOXl (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 10:23:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752490AbXEJOXe (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 10:23:34 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.168]:46001 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750930AbXEJOXd (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 10:23:33 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=s3gKHUQFEibm+knsUJyYxO9wujiDFeaI+R9KtQG9Pcb6RYNBX/AWWcO9Knm9INilDc4md+pAzyIRNhCDN4VKbS+fWfcsrCRpRLNoO998Dl09MebzJrCKgtJZY5VtnnnoVkKpfYlYaHoiQOlXuI0sotAAZI+fpG/ZN/dwz44++lM= Message-ID: <76391b770705100723w24c93b99m48180a759d2116c7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 22:23:32 +0800 From: "liang yuanen" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: why are we reduce spin-lock and replace it with lock-free? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Three are many many spin-lock in the kernel code, and in multi-core conditions, it push down the kernel performance.why are we reduce spin-lock and replace it with lock-free?