linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] futex: fix miss ordered wakeups

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Date:	Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:58:05 -0700
From:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] futex: fix miss ordered wakeups


On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 21:06 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Unifying the mutex and the rtmutex blocked_on is semantically correct
> and is a worthwhile thing to do, but adding the futex waiter to it is
> simply a semantical brain fart which can not be excused by reducing
> the size of task struct.

I can unify just the rtmutex and the mutex, then add the futex waiter as
another entity.

Daniel

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