linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc4 1/4] futex priority based wakeup

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Date:	Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:33:29 -0800
From:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
To:	Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@...l.net>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@...ibm.com>,
	Jean-Pierre Dion <jean-pierre.dion@...l.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
	Jakub Jelinek <jakub@...hat.com>,
	Darren Hart <dvhltc@...ibm.com>,
	Sébastien Dugué <sebastien.dugue@...l.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc4 1/4] futex priority based wakeup

On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 17:29 +0100, Pierre Peiffer wrote:

> > 
> > Is this really necessary? The rtmutex will priority sort the waiters
> > when you enable priority inheritance. Inside the wake_futex_pi() it
> > actually just pulls the new owner off another plist inside the the
> > rtmutex structure.
> 
> Yes. ... necessary for non-PI-futex (ie "normal" futex)...
> 
> As the hash_bucket_list is used and common for both futex and PI-futex, yes, in 
> case of PI_futex, the task is queued two times in two plist.

You could make them distinct .. Also Did you consider merging the PI
path and the non-PI code path? then you could modify the rtmutex to
toggle PI depending .

Daniel

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