Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Jun 2014 10:24:22 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 03/11] qspinlock: Add pending bit |
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On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 05:07:29PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > We are trying to make the fastpath as simple as possible as it may be > > inlined. The complexity of the queue spinlock is in the slowpath. > > Sure, but then it shouldn't be called slowpath anymore as it is not > slow.
Its common terminology to call the inline part the fast path and the out-of-line call on failure the slow path.
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