Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 00:38:34 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Chuck Paterson <cp@bsdi.com>, Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new api for asynchronous task execution Message-ID: <3924E16A.B1123749@softweyr.com> References: <200005190529.WAA06634@mass.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith wrote:
>
> > > If you are talking about running processes in
> > > order based on scheduling priority, this is propagated
> > > though mutexs which have been blocked on.
> >
> > No, speaking of temporarily elevating the priority of a process holding
> > a lock to the highest priority of all processes blocking on the lock.
>
> You could call this "priority lending" so that the rest of us understand
> what you're talking about. 8)
The only system I've ever worked on that implements them refer to
them as inversion-safe or inversion-proof semaphores. I've never seen
another name, including "priority lending", in any literature or
article on the subject.
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