Re: low priority soft RT?

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Wed, 28 Jul 1999 00:47:20 +0100 (BST)


Hi,

On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:32:07 +0100, Steve Dodd <dirk@loth.demon.co.uk>
said:

> On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 06:00:11AM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>> "Priority inheritance."

> Priority inversion?
> Or is that something different?

Two names, same issue. I've heard some people use "priority inversion"
to describe the problem of a low-priority task holding a lock which
blocks a higher priority task, and "priority inheritance" to describe
the solution of increasing the priority of the blocking task. However,
whichever term you use, everybody will understand what you mean. :)

--Stephen

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