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Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 08:04:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, plist fixes
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On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> yes, it's supposed to be used for user-space PI too. What do you mean by 
> 'completely bounded'. Do you consider the current worst-case O(100) 
> property of plists a 'completely bounded' solution?
> 
> i dont think fusyn's should be made available to non-RT tasks. If this 
> restriction is preserved then fusyn's would become O(max_nr_RT_tasks) 
> too.

	I think making fusyn RT tasks only would be asking a lot. Fusyn 
replaces Futex, and they are both used in pthreads. So non-RT tasks 
wouldn't be able to use pthreads in userspace, or a big chunk of pthread 
..

Daniel