On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 16:39 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 14:56 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > Because of the stupid BKL, I'm going with a combination of your idea and > > my idea for the solution of pending owners. I originally wanted the > > stealer of the lock to put the task that was robbed back on the list. > > But because of the BKL, you end up with a state that a task can be > > blocked by two locks at the same time. This causes hell with priority > > inheritance. > >
[snip] > It's a relatively simple patch, but it took a lot of pain since I was > trying very hard to have the stealer do the work. But the BKL proved to > be too much. Oh, I forgot, this is patched against V0.7.41-11. Ingo, you're moving so fast, I can't keep up. I'll download your latest later, and see if this patch still qualifies. -- Steve - 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/
