Re: [PATCH 3/3] futex: fix miss ordered wakeups

From: Ulrich Drepper
Date: Fri May 23 2008 - 01:25:28 EST


On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> That's the problem we aren't just covering 99.99% we're trying to cover
> 100% of cases.. If we don't do it in that one case we may as well not do
> it at all.

I have no problem with removing the other ordering. It was added
because it limited overhead. It is completely wrong to have everybody
pay for the needs for a very small minority.
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