Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:18:26 -0400 (EDT) | From | "James H. Anderson" <> | Subject | Re: [Fwd: Re: RFC for a new Scheduling policy/class in the Linux-kernel] |
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Hi Raj,
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Raj Rajkumar wrote:
> non-preemptive critical section. In addition, we could allow mutexes > to either pick basic priority inheritance (desirable for local mutexes?) > or the priority ceiling version (desirable for global mutexes shared > across processors/cores).
This discussion when I entered it was about using global scheduling in Linux (not partitioning), so that's what I thought the focus of the discussion was. What's the definition of a local mutex in that case? And how do you use ceilings under global scheduling?
Thanks.
-Jim
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