Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 07:39:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Michael Schuster - TSC SunOS Germany <michael.schuster@germany.sun.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new api for asynchronous task execution Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1000519072823.2761A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <200005190650.XAA06921@mass.cdrom.com>
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On Thu, 18 May 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > 'scuse me for barging in - this sounds like what I know as "priority > > inheritance" (as one solution to the priority inversion problem). Are we > > talking of the same thing here? If no, what _is_ the difference? If yes, I > > could probably dig up one or two papers using these terms (we do at Sun, > > but that's not necessarily the place you're looking ... :-) > > Same thing, yes. I seem to recall there being some issues with it, too, > which might make for interesting reading. This is slightly off topic, but you can find some interesting articles, the Inside Solaris column by Jim Mauro in particular, at www.sunworld.com. Back issues are found at: http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/common/swol-backissues-columns.html The following articles describe priorities, sleep/wakeup, turnstiles and priority inheritence, kernel synchronization primitives and locks: http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-07-1999/swol-07-insidesolaris.html http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-07-1999/swol-07-insidesolaris.html http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-08-1999/swol-08-insidesolaris.html http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-09-1999/swol-09-insidesolaris.html http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-10-1999/swol-10-insidesolaris.html http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-1999/swol-11-insidesolaris.html -- Dan Eischen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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