Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.2.9-rt17

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 11:23 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> > Actually, you don't need to tell the lock owner you are waiting for it,
> > you only need to make the lock itself have a priority, and the owner
> > will inherit that priority as long as it holds the lock.
> 
> Hmm, that would actually work, though I'm not too enthusiastic about
> sched_yield().

I don't like sched_yield() either, but this is exactly what it was made
for. To give a process with the same priority the CPU.

-- Steve


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