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
next prev parent 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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