Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Mar 2006 15:47:25 -0800 | Subject | Re: [patch 00/10] PI-futex: -V1 | From | Bill Huey (hui) <> |
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On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 03:10:00PM -0800, Bill Huey wrote: > On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 04:25:39PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > It's not quite as a simple as that. The use of a ceiling is a more aggressive > method of controlling priority in an application. The use [of] it can control [-the-] > thread preeemption, with regard to thread priority, [-primarily-] below the ceiling > by prevent the occurance of priority inversion and the[re]for[e] the need for simple > priority inheritance in the first place. It just simplifies what's going on in > the app as wel[l] as what can happen [if priorities in an app are complex].
[with some grammar and spelling corrections]
Sorry, I think you folks get the idea, but typing a technical email just getting out of bed without contacts is a bit challenging. :)
bill
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