Re: [PATCH] Re: Negative scalability by removal of lock_kernel()?(Was:

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Mon Oct 30 2000 - 13:02:04 EST


On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 02:36:39PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> For stuff like ___wait_on_page(), OTOH, you really want FIFO
> wakeup to avoid starvation (yes, I know we're currently doing

Sure agreed. In my _whole_ previous email I was only talking about accept.
Semaphores file locking etc.. all needs FIFO for fairness as you said.

Andrea
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