Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:57:31 +0200
From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>, mingo@elte.hu, srostedt@redhat.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org,
       gregory.haskins@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] sched: make double-lock-balance fair
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:56:15PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:41:08PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Does it make sense to make this _double_lock_balance() thing depend on
> > that too?
> 
> Hmm, you might have a good point there. Greg?
> 
> BTW. I wonder about other architectures that are of interest to -rt? Like
> mips or arm perhaps... Any plans to implement ticket locks on those, or
> do they not tend to be used in SMP configurations on -rt yte?

Oh, or maybe I guess again: -rt might be using Greg's generic ticket lock
implementation?
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