Re: [PATCH] Re: Negative scalability by removal of lock_kernel()?(Was:

Andrea Arcangeli
2000-10-30T18:03:14Z

On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 02:36:39PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> For stuff like ___wait_on_page(), OTOH, you really want FIFO
> wakeup to avoid starvation (yes, I know we're currently doing

Sure agreed. In my _whole_ previous email I was only talking about accept.
Semaphores file locking etc.. all needs FIFO for fairness as you said.

Andrea