Re: Overview of concurrency managed workqueue

[Stefan Richter]

Daniel Walker wrote:
[tweak scheduling priority of a worker thread]
> Let say I have a high priority
> thread in userspace , and I discover through analysis that my thread is
> being forced to wait on a workqueue thread (priority inversion) , so
> then I just increase the workqueue thread priority to overcome the
> inversion. That's totally valid, and you don't even need to know exactly
> what the thread is doing..

I suspect the _actual_ problem to solve here is not that of proper
scheduling priorities but that of having to meet deadlines.
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