From owner-freebsd-arch Thu May 18 23:36:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8149937BC9F; Thu, 18 May 2000 23:36:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA17739; Fri, 19 May 2000 00:36:07 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <3924E16A.B1123749@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 00:38:34 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith Cc: Chuck Paterson , Doug Rabson , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new api for asynchronous task execution References: <200005190529.WAA06634@mass.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message