Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:05:30 -0800 (PST) | From | Daniel Walker <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/5] lightweight robust futexes: -V1 |
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On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > This patchset provides a new (written from scratch) implementation of > robust futexes, called "lightweight robust futexes". We believe this new > implementation is faster and simpler than the vma-based robust futex > solutions presented before, and we'd like this patchset to be adopted in > the upstream kernel. This is version 1 of the patchset.
Next point of discussion must be PI . Considering that this implementation is lacking it. Maybe it wouldn't be "lightweight" if it was included.
If PI is to be added to Linux it will need to encompass both mutex implementations . Was this a consideration in the design of these lightweight futexes?
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