Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/3] futex: Reduce hash bucket lock contention

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Sep 19 2011 - 03:38:16 EST


On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 14:57 +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> How do we verify that everything is able to deal with spurious
> wakeups?
>
Well, I could go audit all 1400+ *schedule*() callsites in the kernel.
Or we can rely on the fact that current code can already cause spurious
wakeups due to signals.


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