Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 30 Oct 2000 19:02:04 +0100 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: Negative scalability by removal of lock_kernel()?(Was: |
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On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 02:36:39PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > For stuff like ___wait_on_page(), OTOH, you really want FIFO > wakeup to avoid starvation (yes, I know we're currently doing
Sure agreed. In my _whole_ previous email I was only talking about accept. Semaphores file locking etc.. all needs FIFO for fairness as you said.
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