On Thu, 22 Sep 2016, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2016, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > Also what's the reason that we can't do probabilistic spinning for > > FUTEX_WAIT and have to add yet another specialized variant of futexes? > > Where would this leave the respective FUTEX_WAKE? A nop? Probably have to > differentiate the fact that the queue was empty, but there was a spinning, > instead of straightforward returning 0. Sorry, but I really can't parse this answer. Can you folks please communicate with proper and coherent explanations instead of throwing a few gnawed off bones in my direction? Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
