Re: [PATCH] rtmutex: multiple candidate owners without unrelatedboosting

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 15:16 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Dec 2010, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 

> That does not matter. The interesting part is whether the lock on
> which orig_waiter is blocked on was unlocked. Lai's follow up patch does:
> 
> +       if (orig_waiter && !rt_mutex_owner(orig_lock))
>                 goto out_unlock_pi;
> 

I haven't looked at his new patch yet. But if this is the case, then we
can nuke all cand_* fields. This was the only reason I kept the
cand_owner in the first place.

Thanks,

-- Steve


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