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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [patch 0/8] mutex subsystem, ANNOUNCE
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* Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> It would be nice to first do a run with a fair implementation of 
> mutexes.

which fairness implementation do you mean - the one where all tasks will 
get the lock in fair FIFO order, and a 'lucky bastard' cannot steal the 
lock from waiters and thus put them at an indefinite disadvantage?

	Ingo
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