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RE: [RFC 0/4] Add a new mutex type PTHREAD_MUTEX_QUEUESPINNER_NP
- From: "Wang, Kemi" <kemi dot wang at intel dot com>
- To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, "Rical Jason" <rj at 2c3t dot io>, Glibc alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Cc: Dave Hansen <dave dot hansen at linux dot intel dot com>, "Chen, Tim C" <tim dot c dot chen at intel dot com>, "Kleen, Andi" <andi dot kleen at intel dot com>, "Huang, Ying" <ying dot huang at intel dot com>, "Lu, Aaron" <aaron dot lu at intel dot com>, "Li, Aubrey" <aubrey dot li at intel dot com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 15:56:07 +0000
- Subject: RE: [RFC 0/4] Add a new mutex type PTHREAD_MUTEX_QUEUESPINNER_NP
- References: <1530519116-13103-1-git-send-email-kemi.wang@intel.com> <11b23352-762c-3f35-8bbf-da9fbfef075c@redhat.com> <4b86721b-56f0-2968-305e-176198cf2cf8@intel.com> <57de1db9-f81d-2732-fb2f-25009201697c@redhat.com>
> It's very unlikely to happen. I wand to set that expectation up front.
All right.
> We have only 3 weeks to get through the other issues that have been waiting longer in the queue than this, namely Intel CET, C11 threads, etc, everything you see here:
>https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.28#Planning
OK. Could you take a look at another patch series (read only while spinning) which is simpler and has been updated to V7. Thanks in advance.
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-07/msg00164.html
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-07/msg00163.html
> Given that distributions could backport this (no new symbols, just a new flag), is there really any rush in getting it reviewed?
To be honest, yes, please.
And I will respond your feedback ASAP.