| Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] locking: ww_mutex: Allow to use rt_mutex instead of mutex for the baselock | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Date | Mon, 02 Mar 2015 04:20:36 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2015-02-27 at 17:57 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > This patch makes it possible to replace the base mutex by a rt_mutex. In > general one would not do this.
I would argue that the thing should be born as a full fledged primitive, not a config option, as an rt_ww_mutex is the ww extension of rt_mutex. We have to do the global substitution in -rt, but why should it not exist in its own right in mainline?
-Mike
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