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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 11:26:26 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 3/6] MCS Lock: optimizations and extra comments
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On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 05:24:28PM -0800, Tim Chen wrote:
> From: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
> 
> Remove unnecessary operation to assign locked status to 1 if lock is
> acquired without contention as this value will not be checked by lock
> holder again and other potential lock contenders will not be looking at
> their own lock status.

Ha, read that again :-)


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