From owner-freebsd-arch Fri May 19 13: 2:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A1C937BF7F; Fri, 19 May 2000 13:02:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA39228; Fri, 19 May 2000 16:02:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 16:02:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Mike Smith Cc: Chuck Paterson , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD* mutex summary In-Reply-To: <200005191923.MAA09426@mass.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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