From: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 06/10] PI-futex: rt-mutex docs
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:26:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44299BE5.6040308@am.sony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060325184620.GG16724@elte.hu>
Some minor nits.
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Is the temporary priority
> +boosted owner blocked on a rt_mutex itself it propagates the priority
> +boosting to the owner of the rt_mutex it is blocked on.
Should that sentence start with "If"?
> The priority
> +boosting is immidiately removed once the rt_mutex has been unlocked.
immidiately -> immediately
> Per
> +rtmutex only the top priority waiter is enqueued into the owners
> +priority waiters list. Also this list enqueues in priority
> +order.
owners -> owner's
> The optimized fathpath operations require cmpxchg
> +support.
fathpath -> fastpath
If you would like the above changes in patch format,
please let me know.
Regards,
-- Tim
=============================
Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Electronics
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-28 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-25 18:46 [patch 06/10] PI-futex: rt-mutex docs Ingo Molnar
2006-03-28 20:26 ` Tim Bird [this message]
2006-03-29 9:12 ` Ingo Molnar
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