Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:31:22 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/5] lightweight robust futexes: -V1 |
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* Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> wrote:
> >This patchset provides a new (written from scratch) implementation of > >robust futexes, called "lightweight robust futexes". We believe this new > >implementation is faster and simpler than the vma-based robust futex > >solutions presented before, and we'd like this patchset to be adopted in > >the upstream kernel. This is version 1 of the patchset. > > Next point of discussion must be PI. [...]
robustness is an orthogonal feature to Priority Inheritance. In fact it was requested before on lkml to separate robustness support from PI support, and the vma-based robust futex patches now do precisely that - they dont offer PI. So no, PI does not play here, it's a separate thing.
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