Re: [PATCH 3/3] futex: fix miss ordered wakeups

From: Ulrich Drepper
Date: Fri May 23 2008 - 23:39:18 EST


On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think that ordering is something companies have been wanting for a
> long time..

That's your claim. Again, almost nobody outside the realm of embedded
fortunately uses priorities. It's a complete waste of time almost all
programs, certainly all but one or two on any of my systems.

There is already a solution for priority wakeup. Use it and don't
punish everybody else for your needs.
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