Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:19:40 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/8] mutex subsystem, ANNOUNCE |
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* Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> It would be nice to first do a run with a fair implementation of > mutexes.
which fairness implementation do you mean - the one where all tasks will get the lock in fair FIFO order, and a 'lucky bastard' cannot steal the lock from waiters and thus put them at an indefinite disadvantage?
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