Re: condvar performance in .59 vs .60

Jamie Lokier <[email protected]> Fri, 3 Oct 2003 16:32:17 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.phil
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ulrich Drepper 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.

I meant as in dynamic priority: interactive vs. non-interactive.

-- Jamie