Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754306AbYFYT6T (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:58:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750825AbYFYT6K (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:58:10 -0400 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([63.81.120.158]:44872 "EHLO gateway-1237.mvista.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750752AbYFYT6J (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:58:09 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] futex: fix miss ordered wakeups From: Daniel Walker To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Peter Zijlstra , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <20080624232018.817822790@mvista.com> <20080624232020.505470899@mvista.com> <1214371767.16881.5.camel@twins> <1214404611.21035.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1214406451.24356.13.camel@lappy.programming.kicks-ass.net> <1214407507.21035.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1214410654.24356.22.camel@lappy.programming.kicks-ass.net> <1214412463.21035.57.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:58:05 -0700 Message-Id: <1214423886.21035.66.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-5.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 644 Lines: 17 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 -- 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/