lockref: Relax in cmpxchg loop

While we are likley to succeed and break out of this loop, it isn't
guaranteed.  We should be power and thread friendly if we do have to
go around for a second (or third, or more) attempt.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Luck, Tony authored and Linus Torvalds committed 2013-09-03 15:36:42 -07:00
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@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
if (likely(old.lock_count == prev.lock_count)) { \
SUCCESS; \
} \
cpu_relax(); \
} \
} while (0)