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From: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] [RFC][PATCH 5/9] Allow lock stealing
	via	pthread_mutex_trylock
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>
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Jan Kiszka wrote:
> By calling into the kernel in the contended case and exploiting
> XN_NONBLOCK for xnsynch_sleep_on, this patch adds lock stealing support
> to pthread_mutex_trylock.
> 
> The latter part may change if we decide to go for a dedicates xnsynch
> trylock service. Maybe we are even lucky and able to implement lock
> stealing purely with the help of the fast lock algorithm. But we first
> have to merge fast locks into xnsynch to see clearer.

Nak. I can live without stealing for trylock in the mean time.

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                                                 Gilles.