Re: [PATCH 2/3 v2] futex: avoid double wake up in futex_wake() on -RT

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 07:42:55AM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-04-16 at 12:16 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > But if we decide we want to go do this, I'd propose we reintroduce this
> > delayed wake list thing again.
> 
> Given that futexes aren't the only potential users, I definitely agree.
> Lemme cleanup the patches and I'll resend. Now, one thing I wonder about
> is if we should bother making it a delayed list a plist instead -- as
> not all users would consider rt-tasks like futexes do.

plist don't work and should not be used for tasks anymore. I suppose I
should go rip them out of futexes too. If you want to make the thing
priority aware we should probably abstract the rb-tree from rtmutex.c


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