Is MTX_CONTESTED evil?

[Dag-ErlingSmørgrav]

"Brian F. Feldman" <green at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> des at des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) wrote:
> > Making ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES default will not catch more bugs, it will just
> > piss off users.
> What in the world you are talking about?  I didn't know that a large class 
> of bugs existed on SMP, turned on ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES, and found those bugs.
> QED.

ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES currently makes the system unusable.  If we turn it
on by default, people will simply stop using FreeBSD (or at least stop
upgrading).

DES
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