Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 05 Aug 2004 01:22:09 -0700 | From | Ulrich Drepper <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH] FUSYN Realtime & robust mutexes for Linux, v2.3.1 |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > But doesn't the current futex code continue to work unchanged?
If the patches don't touch the existing futex code there is no risk of breaking anything. Futexes and these new objects have nothing to do with each other.
> I was referring to "scheduling-policy based unlock/wakeup", actually.
We don't have anything like this for futexes. It's not impossible to do, we just didn't do it because it was of not much interest to us at that time.
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