On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 01:54:15PM +0200, Thomas Hellstrom wrote: > On 06/14/2018 01:36 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Currently you don't allow mixing WD and WW contexts (which is not > > immediately obvious from the above code), and the above hard relies on > > that. Are there sensible use cases for mixing them? IOW will your > > current restriction stand without hassle? > > Contexts _must_ agree on the algorithm used to resolve deadlocks. With > Wait-Die, for example, older transactions will wait if a lock is held by a > younger transaction and with Wound-Wait, younger transactions will wait if a > lock is held by an older transaction so there is no way of mixing them.
Maybe the compiler should be enforcing that; ie make it a different type? _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
