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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: "Nicolai Hähnle" <nhaehnle@gmail.com>,
	"Nicolai Hähnle" <Nicolai.Haehnle@amd.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org,
	"Maarten Lankhorst" <maarten.lankhorst@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] locking/ww_mutex: Fix a deadlock affecting ww_mutexes
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 15:32:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161123143200.GV3092@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161123142525.ns2pkyp4bo2sa5z2@phenom.ffwll.local>

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 03:25:25PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:

> Without thinking it through in detail this is a PI issue, except that we
> replace boosting with wakeup&back-off. Could we perhaps steal something
> from rt mutexes to make it fair&efficient?

rt_mutexes order the waiters by 'priority' and wake the top most.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-23 14:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-23 11:25 [PATCH 1/4] locking/ww_mutex: Fix a deadlock affecting ww_mutexes Nicolai Hähnle
2016-11-23 11:25 ` [PATCH 2/4] locking/ww_mutex: Remove redundant wakeups in ww_mutex_set_context_slowpath Nicolai Hähnle
2016-11-23 11:25 ` [PATCH 3/4] locking/Documentation: fix a typo Nicolai Hähnle
2016-11-23 11:25 ` [PATCH 4/4] locking/ww_mutex: Fix a comment typo Nicolai Hähnle
2016-11-23 12:50 ` [PATCH 1/4] locking/ww_mutex: Fix a deadlock affecting ww_mutexes Daniel Vetter
2016-11-23 13:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-23 13:08   ` Daniel Vetter
2016-11-23 13:11     ` Daniel Vetter
2016-11-23 13:33       ` Maarten Lankhorst
2016-11-23 14:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-23 14:25   ` Daniel Vetter
2016-11-23 14:32     ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2016-11-24 11:26     ` Nicolai Hähnle
2016-11-24 11:40       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-24 11:52         ` Daniel Vetter
2016-11-24 11:56           ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-24 12:05             ` Nicolai Hähnle

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