[PATCH 1/4] omap: mailbox: convert rwlocks to spinlock

[Felipe Contreras]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Hiroshi DOYU <Hiroshi.DOYU at nokia.com> wrote:
> From: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad at wizery.com>
>
> rwlocks are slower and have potential starvation issues
> therefore spinlocks are generally preferred.
>
> see also: http://lwn.net/Articles/364583/
>
> Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad at wizery.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kanigeri Hari <h-kanigeri2 at ti.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hiroshi DOYU <Hiroshi.DOYU at nokia.com>

There's no cover letter, so I'll comment here.

What about these patches?
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.omap/31208

They are needed for dspbridge... AFAIK the only real user for omap mailbox.

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Felipe Contreras