On Tue, 2013-04-09 at 18:42 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > What about setting an age as soon as it starts the process > of grabbing one of these locks? And it keeps the age until it > successfully grabs and releases all the locks again. It wont reset if > it > had to drop the locks and start over. That is indeed the proposed mechanism. It ensures FIFO fairness between the various threads that try to acquire a set. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html