Re: New semaphore __wake_up() implementation ...

Davide Libenzi (davidel@maticad.it)
Fri, 11 Jun 1999 16:59:56 +0200


>wait a sec, what about starvation issues ? if the semaphore is used for
>resource counting then it's ok. but if it is used as a mutex then we're
>in trouble. LIFO is unacceptable, FIFO might have priority inversion.
>calculating goodness() on all the processes in the waitqueue and picking
>the winner sounds like the way to go, IMHO.
>

Agree.

Davide.

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