From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751158AbWCZHsQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Mar 2006 02:48:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751159AbWCZHsQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Mar 2006 02:48:16 -0500 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:49093 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751158AbWCZHsP (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Mar 2006 02:48:15 -0500 Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:45:35 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Bill Huey Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: [patch 00/10] PI-futex: -V1 Message-ID: <20060326074535.GA9969@elte.hu> References: <20060325184528.GA16724@elte.hu> <20060326045404.GA9308@gnuppy.monkey.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060326045404.GA9308@gnuppy.monkey.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-ELTE-SpamScore: 0.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=0.0 required=5.9 tests=AWL autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.0.3 0.0 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Bill Huey wrote: > You'll need to do priority ceiling emulation as well. [...] i mentioned it further down in the text - PRIO_PROTECT support (which is priority ceiling) is planned for pthread mutexes. It needs no further kernel changes, it's a pure userspace thing. Ingo