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From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] futex: fix miss ordered wakeups
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:44:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1213278286.16459.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0806121533270.3193@apollo.tec.linutronix.de>


On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 15:33 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 10:56 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > Please stop wasting everyone's time with that.
> > 
> > It achieves correct ordering of the futex waiters inside the kernel,
> > that is in fact _something_ ..
> 
> Yeah, just something _useless_

Just because you don't use it, doesn't make it useless .. At least
there's enough people asking for this that it warrants me writing it..

Daniel


  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-12 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-11 20:49 [PATCH 1/5] futex: checkpatch cleanup Daniel Walker
2008-06-11 20:49 ` [PATCH 2/5] futex: update prio on requeue Daniel Walker
2008-06-12  5:22   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-06-11 20:49 ` [PATCH 3/5] mutex debug: add generic blocked_on usage Daniel Walker
2008-06-12  5:25   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-06-12 13:21     ` Daniel Walker
2008-06-11 20:49 ` [PATCH 4/5] rtmutex: " Daniel Walker
2008-06-11 20:49 ` [PATCH 5/5] futex: fix miss ordered wakeups Daniel Walker
2008-06-12  6:07   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-06-12 13:22     ` Daniel Walker
2008-06-12 13:57       ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-06-12 14:04         ` Daniel Walker
2008-06-12  8:56   ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-06-12 13:30     ` Daniel Walker
2008-06-12 13:33       ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-06-12 13:44         ` Daniel Walker [this message]
2008-06-12 15:24           ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-06-12 15:56             ` Daniel Walker
2008-06-12 19:55               ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-06-12 22:09                 ` Daniel Walker
2008-06-12 22:43                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-06-12 23:06                     ` Daniel Walker
2008-06-12 23:30                       ` Thomas Gleixner

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