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On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Nick Piggin wrote:

> getting contended. The following graph is a best of 3 runs average.
> http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/rwsem.png

the graphs are too noise to be conclusive.

> The part to look at is the tail. I need to do some more testing to see
> if its significant.

yes, could you go from 150 to 300?

	Ingo