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Date:      Fri, 16 May 2008 18:50:23 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To:        Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
Cc:        David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>, Brent Casavant <b.j.casavant@ieee.org>, freebsd-threads@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: thread scheduling at mutex unlock
Message-ID:  <20080517015023.GM32532@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0805161724360.5088@sea.ntplx.net>
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* Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> [080516 14:55] wrote:
> 
> I think to be fair, the contested mutex case should try
> to handoff the mutex, in lieu of any priority protocol
> that is in place for the threads or mutex.  And actually,
> I think in order to properly implement priority mutexes,
> there must be a handoff.
> 

Is this what you are saying?  Because it is what I believe.

-- 
- Alfred Perlstein



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