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Message-ID: <20210608143126.xd6fvtdnoq6annq7@offworld>
Date:   Tue, 8 Jun 2021 07:31:26 -0700
From:   Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev@...il.com>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Andr� Almeida <andrealmeid@...labora.com>,
        acme@...nel.org, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        corbet@....net, Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        fweimer@...hat.com, joel@...lfernandes.org, kernel@...labora.com,
        krisman@...labora.com, libc-alpha@...rceware.org,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, malteskarupke@...tmail.fm,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, pgriffais@...vesoftware.com,
        Peter Oskolkov <posk@...k.io>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, shuah@...nel.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, z.figura12@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/15] Add futex2 syscalls

On Tue, 08 Jun 2021, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

>On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 01:13:30PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 02:03:50PM +0300, Andrey Semashev wrote:
>> So what's keeping the futex2 code from doing all that futex1 does so
>> that the futex1 code can be deleted internally?
>
>I'd much rather see it the other way around. Much of what futex2 does
>can already be done with the futex1 code-base. And then we can add
>features on top.

Yeah furthermore, how can futex2 be thought of replacing futex1 in the
future when the PI aspects haven't even been mentioned?

Thanks,
Davidlohr

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