Re: your mail

Daniel Walker
2008-05-24T21:06:31Z

On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 22:05 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> > If that's the requirement then code that cleans up the corner case that
> > I've identified, which is also minimal should be acceptable .. Since
> > it's meeting the same requirement you layed out above for the original
> > plist changes.
>
> Your code solves the least to worry about corner case and hurts
> performance for nothing. You take extra locks in the hot path for no
> benefit.
>
> Aside of that it introduces lock order problems and we can really do
> without extra useless complexity in the futex code.
>
> You can argue in circles. This is not going anywhere near mainline.

Above I'm not speaking about my code, I'm only speaking in terms of a
solution to this case, even if it isn't mine..

Daniel