futex priority based wakeup
authorPierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@bull.net>
Wed, 9 May 2007 09:35:00 +0000 (02:35 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 9 May 2007 19:30:55 +0000 (12:30 -0700)
commitec92d08292d3e9b0823eba138a4564d2d39f25c7
tree4dc94792e83d51b036d52e92e8d4f137a2efce97
parentf34c506b0385b43abd25c490335036ecbb173aed
futex priority based wakeup

Today, all threads waiting for a given futex are woken in FIFO order (first
waiter woken first) instead of priority order.

This patch makes use of plist (pirotity ordered lists) instead of simple list
in futex_hash_bucket.

All non-RT threads are stored with priority MAX_RT_PRIO, causing them to be
woken last, in FIFO order (RT-threads are woken first, in priority order).

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Dugue <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@bull.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/futex.c