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

From: Daniel Walker
Date: Thu Jun 12 2008 - 10:05:19 EST



On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 15:57 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 06:22 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 08:07 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 13:49 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > > > plain text document attachment (blocked_on-futex.patch)
> > >
> > > I thought everybody and his dog didn't care for this?
> >
> > Just Thomas ..
>
> And me, I really don't see the point in this, use PI futexes already if
> you care for wakeup ordering.

Does it make sense that we allow a priority based plist ordering, but we
don't keep the priorities up to date? That doesn't make sense to me.

Daniel

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