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SubjectRe: [RFC] sched: implement the exclusive wait queue as a LIFO queue
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:06 PM, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> I suspect you really want to have the semantics defined per-queue.  _Either_ a
> queue is FIFO (such as processes waiting for a resource so they can do
> something with it) _or_ it is LIFO (such as a pool of processes waiting to be
> given work).
>
> How often do the two actually mix?  And if they do, is that really an error?
>

The sock.sk_sleep is used by exclusive and non-exclusive wait queues.
exclusive and non-exclusive is identified by wait queues, not wait
queue heads. Maybe there is a historical reason. It is much like a
hack.

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Changli Gao(xiaosuo@gmail.com)
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