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Re: passing private flag to SYS_futex in sem_post on x86_64


On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Petar Jovanovic
<petar.jovanovic@rt-rk.com> wrote:
> I was more bringing the issue to discussion than really advocating the
> patch,
> and the issue is that we have different behaviour on different platforms
> (which
> is again not a real issue, if nobody else except me minds that). Other
> platforms
> will isolate the private flag the way I have just described it - does that
> mean
> they should not be doing it?

Correct. I think it would be a good micro-optimization for all architectures.

Cheers,
Carlos.


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