On Tue, 2013-04-09 at 18:42 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > What about setting an age as soon as it starts the process > of grabbing one of these locks? And it keeps the age until it > successfully grabs and releases all the locks again. It wont reset if > it > had to drop the locks and start over.
That is indeed the proposed mechanism. It ensures FIFO fairness between the various threads that try to acquire a set.
