Re: condvar performance in .59 vs .60

Jamie Lokier wrote:

> I agree for most apps, but there will be a few that get upset if they
> wake another higher priority task and it does not run until this
> task's timeslice completes (or whatever the synchronous wakeup
> condition is).

The current futex code doesn't handle priorities at all.  There exist
some patches to add this functionality but this is a completely separate
issue.

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