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Date:      Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:38:47 +0530
From:      "Kamal R. Prasad" <kamalpr@gmail.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, prime <guomingyan@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: How priority propagation works on read/write lock?
Message-ID:  <ac7deb50601152108l15a98197v9eaeaa5a8f0e2d1e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200601131422.15208.jhb@freebsd.org>
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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.



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