Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Apr 2017 16:35:28 -0700 | From | Darren Hart <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -v6 10/13] futex,rt_mutex: Restructure rt_mutex_finish_proxy_lock() |
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On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 04:30:59PM -0700, Darren Hart wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 11:35:57AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > With the ultimate goal of keeping rt_mutex wait_list and futex_q > > waiters consistent we want to split 'rt_mutex_futex_lock()' into finer > > I want to be clear that I understand why this patch is needed - as it actually > moves both the waiter removal and the rt_waiter freeing under the hb lock while > you've been working to be less dependent on the hb lock. > > Was inconsistency of the rt_mutex wait_list and the futex_q waiters a problem > before this patch series, or do the previous patches make this one necessary?
Ah, this is a follow-on to the issue described in 7 of 10. Nevermind.
-- Darren Hart VMware Open Source Technology Center
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