Re: a competition when some threads acquire futex

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 10:56:08AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> Right, but even if it was a coherent patch, I'm not sure it makes sense.
> 
> futex_wait() / futex_wake() don't make ordering guarantees and in
> general you don't get to have wakeup preemption if you don't run a
> PREEMPT kernel.
> 
> So what makes this wakeup so special? Any changelog would need to have a
> convincing argument.

Also, even on !PREEMPT, if that wakeup sets NEED_RESCHED, the return to
userspace after futex_wake() should reschedule.


So I'm really not getting it.