From owner-freebsd-arch Thu May 18 22:29:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (adsl-63-206-88-224.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.88.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8011B37B90F for ; Thu, 18 May 2000 22:29:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA06634; Thu, 18 May 2000 22:29:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200005190529.WAA06634@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Wes Peters Cc: Chuck Paterson , Doug Rabson , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new api for asynchronous task execution In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 May 2000 23:19:32 MDT." <3924CEE4.55551D82@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 22:29:56 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message