From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 15 01:41:07 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 448111065674; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 01:41:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from davidxu@freebsd.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 171DD8FC16; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 01:41:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from xyf.my.dom (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oBF1f36Q009454; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 01:41:04 GMT (envelope-from davidxu@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <4D081CB2.80200@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:41:06 +0800 From: David Xu User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100630) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin References: <201012101050.45214.jhb@freebsd.org> <201012130927.26815.jhb@freebsd.org> <4D06C8B0.1060409@freebsd.org> <201012140756.52926.jhb@freebsd.org> <4D081C7C.5040407@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4D081C7C.5040407@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Sergey Babkin Subject: Re: Realtime thread priorities X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 01:41:07 -0000 > You still don't answer me about how to avoid a time-sharing thread > holding a critical kernel resource which preempted by a user RT thread, > and later the RT thread requires the resource, but the time-sharing > thread has no chance to run because another RT thread is dominating > the CPU because it is doing CPU bound work, result is deadlock, even if > you know you trust your RT process, there are many code which were not > written by you, > >