Re: [PATCH 5/5] futex: fix miss ordered wakeups

From: Daniel Walker
Date: Thu Jun 12 2008 - 09:45:30 EST



On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 15:33 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 10:56 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > Please stop wasting everyone's time with that.
> >
> > It achieves correct ordering of the futex waiters inside the kernel,
> > that is in fact _something_ ..
>
> Yeah, just something _useless_

Just because you don't use it, doesn't make it useless .. At least
there's enough people asking for this that it warrants me writing it..

Daniel

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