Hi! > One of the intended purposes of this facility (but its not sole purpose) is to > render a lightweight mechanism for priority protection of lock-holding > critical > sections that would be an adequate match for lightweight locking primitives > such as futex, with both featuring a fast path completing within the > userspace.
Do we get a manpage describing the interface...? Would it make sense to make set_priority a "vsyscall" so it is fast enough, and delayed_set_priority does not need to be exposed to userspace? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/