Re: [PATCH RT] kernel/futex: don't deboost too early

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

On 2016-09-30 12:00:38 [-0400], Steven Rostedt wrote:
> This looks awfully complex. Would something as simple as this work?
> 
> What harm can happen by moving the holding of the lock after the
> wakeups for RT?
If the waiter has a higher priority he will get on the CPU and remove
_this_ task. Since the woken up task will access the hb lock
immediately _or_ before going to sleep so it will boost in order to get
the hb lock.
That is way we introduced this delayed wake up in the first place.

Sebastian