On Sat, 21 Apr 2007, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > > If you do this, and it has been requested many a times, then please > generalize it. We have the same issue with futexes. If a FUTEX_WAIT > call is issues the remaining time in the slot should be given to the > thread currently owning the futex.
And how the hell do you imagine you'd even *know* what thread holds the futex? The whole point of the "f" part of the mutex is that it's fast, and we never see the non-contended case in the kernel. So we know who *blocks*, but we don't know who actually didn't block. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/