Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation

From: Joe Korty
Date: Fri Dec 16 2005 - 19:30:36 EST


On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 02:41:16PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> "Friends don't let friends use priority inheritance".
>
> Just don't do it. If you really need it, your system is broken anyway.

The Mars Pathfinder incident is sufficient proof that some solution to
the priority inversion problem is required in real systems.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/raj/www/mars.html

Regards,
Joe
--
"All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft, for the
architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception,
and revision only affects the detail and ornament. -- T.E. Lawrence
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