Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:02:38 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC] sched: deferred set priority (dprio) |
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Hi!
> One of the intended purposes of this facility (but its not sole purpose) is to > render a lightweight mechanism for priority protection of lock-holding critical > sections that would be an adequate match for lightweight locking primitives > such as futex, with both featuring a fast path completing within the > userspace.
Do we get a manpage describing the interface...?
Would it make sense to make set_priority a "vsyscall" so it is fast enough, and delayed_set_priority does not need to be exposed to userspace? Pavel
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