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SubjectRe: [patch 0/8] mutex subsystem, ANNOUNCE

* 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?

Ingo
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