RE: Thread starvation with mutex

> From: Ulrich Drepper [mailto:[email protected]]
> Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote:
> 
> > So? They are not saying that you have to support it, but that whatever
> > you have as an scheduling policy has to determine who runs next.
> 
> It determines which process runs next, not thread.

So you either are telling me that threads are some magic entity
that needs no scheduling or that if we have a shared mutex and
two processes contending around it this will not happened (and
so on and so for).

Iñaky Pérez-González -- Not speaking for Intel -- all opinions are my own (and my fault)