10 Apr
2013
10 Apr
'13
7:34 a.m.
On Tue, 2013-04-09 at 18:42 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
What about setting an age as soon as it starts the process of grabbing one of these locks? And it keeps the age until it successfully grabs and releases all the locks again. It wont reset if it had to drop the locks and start over.
That is indeed the proposed mechanism. It ensures FIFO fairness between the various threads that try to acquire a set.