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

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Message-Id: <1213278286.16459.29.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:44:46 -0700
From:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...il.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] futex: fix miss ordered wakeups


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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