Re: [patch 0/5] lightweight robust futexes: -V1

[Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>]

On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 22:31 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> wrote:
> 
> > >This patchset provides a new (written from scratch) implementation of
> > >robust futexes, called "lightweight robust futexes". We believe this new
> > >implementation is faster and simpler than the vma-based robust futex
> > >solutions presented before, and we'd like this patchset to be adopted in
> > >the upstream kernel. This is version 1 of the patchset.
> > 
> > 	Next point of discussion must be PI. [...]
> 
> robustness is an orthogonal feature to Priority Inheritance. In fact it 
> was requested before on lkml to separate robustness support from PI 
> support, and the vma-based robust futex patches now do precisely that - 
> they dont offer PI. So no, PI does not play here, it's a separate thing.

	I was more interested in knowing if you considered it in the design.

Daniel