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From: "Kamal R. Prasad" <kamalpr@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: How priority propagation works on read/write lock?
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you mean, boosting the priority of a reader would be required to avoid
priority inversion, but difficult to implement?

regards
-kamal

On 1/14/06, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:

> I think you just kind of punt and do a best effort.  Trying to manage a
> list
> of current read lock holders would be a bit PITA.