On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 12:16:03PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
...
> Priority propagation will already handle things ok. We drop to pri_native
> after we drop a lock (although if we still hold a contested lock we bump our
> priority to the min(nativepri, highest priority of threads on contested locks
> we hold and drop to nativepri after dropping the last contested lock).
ok, thanks for the clarification
> However, kthreads should tsleep() with their current priority, not PPAUSE.
"current" meaning pri_level or pri_native ? What if one tries to
tsleep() while holding a lock and so its pri_level is raised ?
In the device polling code i did a tsleep on the "original" pri_level,
but maybe pri_native is good enough.
cheers
luigi
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