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| Pierre.Peiffer@bull.net |
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| akpm@linux-foundation.org |
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| [PATCH 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 0/4] Futexes functionalities and improvements |
| Date: |
| Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:52:03 +0100 |
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| mingo@elte.hu, drepper@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
jean-pierre.dion@bull.net |
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Hi Andrew,
This is a re-send of a series of patches concerning futexes (here after is a short description)
Could you consider them for inclusion in -mm tree ?
All of them have already been discussed in January and have already been included in -rt for a
while. I think that we agreed to potentially include them in the -mm tree.
Ulrich is specially interested by sys_futex64.
There are:
* futex uses prio list : allows RT-threads to be woken in priority order
instead of FIFO order.
* futex_wait uses hrtimer : allows the use of finer timer resolution.
* futex_requeue_pi functionality : allows use of requeue optimization for
PI-mutexes/PI-futexes.
* futex64 syscall : allows use of 64-bit futexes instead of 32-bit.
Note: it does not inlcude the fix "PI state locking fix" sent yesterday by Ingo.
Thanks,
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Pierre