On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 15:31 +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: > The trick with the current code is that the oldest task > will never see an -EAGAIN ever and hence is guaranteed to make forward > progress. If the task is really unlucky though it might be forced to > wait > for a younger task for every ww_mutex it tries to acquire. Agreed on that.. while I didn't state this my proposed thing should behave the same. It follows from the symmetry breaking in that only younger tasks can get 'kill'ed. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
