Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 16:02:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: Chuck Paterson <cp@bsdi.com>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD* mutex summary Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000519160040.38073E-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <200005191923.MAA09426@mass.cdrom.com>
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On Fri, 19 May 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > As Terry made it clear, this is "priority lending" in the common lexicon. In all the literature I've been reading, ``priority inheritence'' has been the term use to describe what I think we're talking about -- i.e., processes/tasks inheritting higher priorities whenthey hold a resource a higher priority process is blocked on. This was certainly the term used in my realtime/distributed systems class at CMU a few years ago, so is fairly widely accepted. Robert N M Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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