"David S. Miller" wrote: > > Nigel Gamble writes: > > That's why MontaVista's kernel preemption patch uses sleeping mutex > > locks instead of spinlocks for the long held locks. > > Anyone who uses sleeping mutex locks is asking for trouble. Priority > inversion is an issue I dearly hope we never have to deal with in the > Linux kernel, and sleeping SMP mutex locks lead to exactly this kind > of problem. > Exactly why we are going to us priority inherit mutexes. This handles the inversion nicely. George - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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- Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-latency scheduling pa... Cort Dougan
- Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-latency scheduling pa... Andrew Morton
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- Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-latency sched... Daniel Phillips
- Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-latency sched... Nigel Gamble
- Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-latency ... David S. Miller
- Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-late... george anzinger
- Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-latency ... Andrew Morton
- Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-late... Tim Wright
- Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-... Nigel Gamble
- Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-... Andrew Morton
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- Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-late... yodaiken
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