Re: [patch] increase spinlock-debug looping timeouts (write_lock and NMI)

* Nick Piggin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Otherwise, a straight rwlock->spinlock conversion will have a few more 
> scalability issues, but I'd guess it wouldn't be a problem at all for 
> most workloads on most systems.

curious, do you have any (relatively-) simple to run testcase that 
clearly shows the "scalability issues" you mention above, when going 
from rwlocks to spinlocks? I'd like to give it a try on an 8-way box.

	Ingo
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