Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: your mail | From | Daniel Walker <> | Date | Sat, 24 May 2008 14:06:21 -0700 |
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On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 22:05 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > If that's the requirement then code that cleans up the corner case that > > I've identified, which is also minimal should be acceptable .. Since > > it's meeting the same requirement you layed out above for the original > > plist changes. > > Your code solves the least to worry about corner case and hurts > performance for nothing. You take extra locks in the hot path for no > benefit. > > Aside of that it introduces lock order problems and we can really do > without extra useless complexity in the futex code. > > You can argue in circles. This is not going anywhere near mainline.
Above I'm not speaking about my code, I'm only speaking in terms of a solution to this case, even if it isn't mine..
Daniel
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