Date: 8 Jun 2011 20:44:35 -0400
Message-ID: <20110609004435.14550.qmail@science.horizon.com>
From: "George Spelvin" <linux@horizon.com>
To: david@rgmadvisors.com, dvhart@linux.intel.com, kyle@moffetthome.net,
        luto@mit.edu
Subject: Re: Change in functionality of futex() system call.
Cc: linux@horizon.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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I'm not sure if it's best, but the risk of RO waiters interfering could
be solved by giving them a lower prioirty for wakeup and always waking
RW-mapped waiters first.

In most cases, there would only be one type of waiter, so this would
have no effect, but if there were, a RO-mapped reader couldn't "steal"
wakeup from someone who had it RW-mapped.

It might conflict with a fairness goal, but it does solve the problem
without any extension to the API.
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