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- Lines: 14
- Date:
Sun Feb 13 10:31:06 2000
- Orig file:
v2.3.44/linux/include/asm-ia64/semaphore.h
- Orig date:
Thu Feb 10 17:11:20 2000
diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.3.44/linux/include/asm-ia64/semaphore.h linux/include/asm-ia64/semaphore.h
@@ -137,13 +137,6 @@
* In terms of fairness, when there is heavy use of the lock, we want
* to see the lock being passed back and forth between readers and
* writers (like in a producer/consumer style of communication).
- *
-
- For
- * liveness, it would be necessary to process the blocked readers and
- * writers in FIFO order. However, we don't do this (yet). I suppose
- * if you have a lock that is _that_ heavily contested, you're in big
- * trouble anyhow.
*
* -ben (with clarifications & IA-64 comments by davidm)
*/
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