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Date:      Thu, 18 May 2000 22:29:56 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
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:  <200005190529.WAA06634@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 May 2000 23:19:32 MDT." <3924CEE4.55551D82@softweyr.com> 

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> >         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)

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