Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261195AbVDMSsE (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:48:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261159AbVDMSsD (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:48:03 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com ([24.24.2.56]:64420 "EHLO ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261201AbVDMSjO (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:39:14 -0400 Subject: RE: FUSYN and RT From: Steven Rostedt To: dwalker@mvista.com Cc: mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" , Esben Nielsen In-Reply-To: <1113413613.8183.15.camel@dhcp153.mvista.com> References: <1113352069.6388.39.camel@dhcp153.mvista.com> <1113407200.4294.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1113413613.8183.15.camel@dhcp153.mvista.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Kihon Technologies Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:38:24 -0400 Message-Id: <1113417504.4294.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2138 Lines: 42 On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 10:33 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 08:46, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > How hard would it be to use the RT mutex PI for the priority inheritance > > for fusyn? I only work with the RT mutex now and haven't looked at the > > fusyn. Maybe Ingo can make a separate PI system with its own API that > > both the fusyn and RT mutex can use. This way the fusyn locks can still > > be separate from the RT mutex locks but still work together. > > > > Basically can the fusyn work with the rt_mutex_waiter? That's what I > > would pull into its own subsystem. Have another structure that would > > reside in both the fusyn and RT mutex that would take over for the > > current rt_mutex that is used in pi_setprio and task_blocks_on_lock in > > rt.c. So if both locks used the same PI system, then this should all be > > cleared up. > > > > If this doesn't makes sense, or just confusing, I'll explain more :-) > > I've thought about this as an option, but when I first started this > thread It seemed like the two could work independently, and safely which > doesn't appear to be the case any more. > > The problems with pulling out the PI in the RT mutex are that > pi_setprio() does a walk over lock->owner and we're got two different > lock structures now . I was thinking we could add something like > lock_ops (get_owner(), wait_list_add(), wait_list_del(), ?? ) to > rt_mutex_waiter, or abstract rt_lock. Then pi_setprio would just use the > lock_ops instead of accessing a structure .. Yeah, I was thinking of another structure within rt_mutex and what fusyn uses. Like a pi_struct of some sort. And this would be the common structure that holds the owner and prio or what ever that the pi_setprio and friends need. This would probably be the easier approach, but for the long run, I think I like your idea of the ops better. -- Steve - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/