Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.2.9-rt17

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 16:25 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> How would this be different than what mainline does? When the lock is
> released, it will wake up the other task. 

mainline has ticket locks, the rt-mutex stuff has equal priority lock
stealing, waking up the blocked task will take so long our running loop
will have re-acquired ->d_lock again before it even gets to trying.
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